MagaSwaga Potent Notables

Notable: Nunes: Someone on foreign soil was 'running operations' against Trump, et al

Devin Nunes: Someone on foreign soil was 'running operations' against Trump campaign associates

Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said on Wednesday he is certain that someone on foreign soil was "running operations" against the Trump campaign. The House Intelligence Committee ranking member was invited onto Fox News to discuss a letter he sent to President Trump with a list of questions to ask British Prime Minister Theresa May about the Steele dossier when he visits the United Kingdom next month.

Host Sean Hannity asked Nunes about the possibility that members of the U.S. intelligence community in the Obama administration "outsourced what would be illegal intelligence gathering" to allies such as the United Kingdom. "I think we can be sure about one thing and that is that on foreign soil, someone was running operations against Trump campaign people," Nunes said. "Now, we don't know if that was our government, if it was the British government, or if it was some type of firm of some kind that was doing it. But I think it is definitely a fact, Sean, that at least on British soil, possibly on Italian soil, there were activities going on that we need to get to the bottom of."

Nunes has been a leading critic of the FBI's use of British ex-spy Christopher Steele's dossier, filled with unverified claims about Trump's ties to Russia, to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants to wiretap onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. At least three federal investigations into alleged FISA abuse and other matters related to the way the FBI and the Justice Department conducted the Trump-Russia investigation and several top ex-officials, including former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey, are under increasing scrutiny.

Nunes' letter, obtained by the Washington Examiner, cites a report from the Telegraph published over the weekend that said the leaders of MI5 and MI6, the United Kingdom’s top intelligence agencies, were briefed about Steele’s dossier shortly after the 2016 election, before Trump was told about them. One subject of Nunes' letter to Trump is Maltese academic Joseph Mifsud, the man who told former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos the Russians had damaging information about Clinton. Papadopoulos later repeated this claim to Australian diplomat Alexander Downer, who informed the U.S. government and prompted the original counterintelligence investigation into Trump's campaign in July 2016.

Although special counsel Robert Mueller's team portrayed Mifsud, London-based professor, as a Russian asset with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin in their 448-page report, Nunes says they decided to "cherry pick" information from news reports, leaving out that he is described as a Western intelligence asset. Nunes specifically noted that Mifsud has a lot of ties to U.S., British, and Italian intelligence services. Nunes told Hannity that he believes Mueller's team, which he dubbed the "Mueller dossier team," knew British intelligence had warned their U.S. counterparts about Steele's credibility. "I actually believe that Mueller knows that the Mueller dossier team knew that the Brits actually I think did give us some warning. But we can't get that information. I think there are things that Mueller knew about. I think the Brits probably did raise concerns about Steele's credibility to the new administration. But of course, we can't get those documents and it's what we continue to try to get," Nunes said. The congressman said he hopes U.S. Attorney John Durham, who has been tasked by Attorney General William Barr to review the origins of the Russia investigation, will be able to get the answers he seeks. The Justice Department and House Intelligence Committee struck a deal on Wednesday to allow the panel access to counterintelligence material underlying Mueller's work.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devin-nunes-someone-on-foreign-soil-was-running-operations-against-trump-campaign-associates

Notable: Meadows: Schiff, Dems raging over 'information coming that will curl your hair'

Mark Meadows: Adam Schiff, Democrats are raging over 'information coming that will curl your hair'

Rep. Mark Meadows said on Wednesday that Democrats are in a panic because "there is information coming that will curl your hair," referring to the expected declassification of key documents related to the Russia investigation. During an interview on Fox News, the North Carolina Republican said Democrats, and in particular House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, know that when these documents come out it will be trouble for them.

"There is information coming that will curl your hair. I can tell you that the reason why it is so visceral — the response from the Democrats is so visceral right now — is because they know, they've seen documents. Adam Schiff has seen documents that he knows what actually put the finger pointing back at him and his Democratic colleagues, not the president of the United States," he told host Sean Hannity.

Democrats in the House are engaged in a multi-pronged effort to investigate President Trump, his inner circle, and his finances. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told Fox News on Tuesday that this is all a "coordinated effort to take down the president." Meanwhile Meadows and his GOP colleagues are hotly anticipating Trump to declassify documents any day now that they believe will include transcripts between FBI informants and former Trump campaign associate George Papadopoulos. Former Rep. Trey Gowdy said over the weekend this has “the potential to be a game changer.”

At least three federal investigations into alleged FISA abuse and other matters related to the way the FBI and the Justice Department conducted the Trump-Russia investigation and several top ex-officials, including former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey, are under increasing scrutiny. Asked by Hannity if he knows if Comey spied, Meadows said the former director was without a doubt privy to misconduct. "He actually he was aware of it. – he was aware of improper things that were being done, certainly," Meadows said.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mark-meadows-adam-schiff-democrats-are-raging-over-information-coming-that-will-curl-your-hair

Notable: Red Castle PSA: Hurrican Season. Ready anons?

A public service announcement from our friends at Red Castle.

Are you ready for Hurricane Season?

Notable: Two U.S. Navy ships sail through strategic Taiwan Strait

Two U.S. Navy ships sail through strategic Taiwan Strait

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military said it sent two Navy ships through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, a move likely to anger Beijing at a time of tense relations between the world’s two biggest economies.

Taiwan is one of a growing number of flashpoints in the U.S.-China relationship, which also include a bitter trade war, U.S. sanctions and China’s increasingly muscular military posture in the South China Sea, where the United States also conducts freedom-of-navigation patrols.

The voyage will be viewed by self-ruled Taiwan as a sign of support from the Trump administration amid growing friction between Taipei and Beijing.

The transit was carried out by the destroyer Preble and the Navy oil tanker Walter S. Diehl, a U.S. military spokesman told Reuters.

“The ships’ transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the U.S. commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” Commander Clay Doss, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet, said in a statement.

Doss said all interactions were safe and professional.

There was no immediate reaction from Taiwan or China.

The United States has no formal ties with Taiwan but is bound by law to help provide the island with the means to defend itself and is its main source of arms.

The Pentagon says Washington has sold Taipei more than $15 billion in weaponry since 2010.

China has been ramping up pressure to assert its sovereignty over the island, which it considers a wayward province of “one China” and sacred Chinese territory.

Beijing said a recent Taiwan Strait passage by a French warship, first reported by Reuters, was illegal.

China has repeatedly sent military aircraft and ships to circle Taiwan on exercises in the past few years and worked to isolate it internationally, whittling down its few remaining diplomatic allies.

The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency released a report earlier this year describing Taiwan as the “primary driver” for China’s military modernization, which it said had made major advances in recent years.

On Sunday, the Preble sailed near the disputed Scarborough Shoal claimed by China in the South China Sea, angering Beijing.

The state-run China Daily said in an editorial on Wednesday that China has shown “utmost restraint in responding to the incitements by the U.S.”

“With tensions between the two countries already rife, there is no guarantee that the presence of U.S. warships on China’s doorstep will not spark direct confrontation between the two militaries,” the official newspaper said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-navy/two-u-s-navy-ships-sail-through-strategic-taiwan-strait-idUSKCN1ST062

Notable: New Mil-Tweets

The Best Offense is a Good Defense

twitter.com/USMC/status/1131349021715570688

Notable: >>6563468, >>6563651 New DJT Twats

DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1131386418410999808

Notable: New Garrison: Liberal Debating Tactics

New Ben Garrison - There’s always a lot of insults and name-calling going on in politics.

President Trump is good at it—he is able to crystallize his opponents with memes and labels that stick. Hillary was called ‘Crooked Hillary’ and it summed her up nicely.

Trump calls Biden ‘Sleepy Joe,’ which to me seems to be an upgrade over his other moniker—“Creepy Joe.”

Hillary made a big mistake when she smeared Trump supporters as ‘deplorables.’ This did not help her win over anyone right of center. Joe Biden, not to be outdone by Hillary, downgraded Trump supporters to ’the dregs of society.’

These are all mild insults compared to the smears that gush from the mouths and pens of the Left. They routinely call Trump and his supporters ‘racists,’ ‘white nationalists,’ ‘bigots,’ the ‘KKK,’ and ‘Nazis.’ This kind of invective only underlines a fact: The radical socialist Left has no argument. After all, socialism goes against reason, logic, human nature, and nature itself. History has proven its failure time and time again.

There’s a reason the left uses words such has ‘racist’ or ‘Nazi’ without any evidence whatsoever. Those words are meant to dehumanize opponents. Once people are stripped of humanity, they become ‘monsters’ and it then becomes acceptable to use violence against them. The Catholic Church once used this tactic to torture and murder Protestants. They simply labeled them has ‘heretics,’ which made them synonymous with demons. Eradicating demons is a good thing.'

Being against socialism, globalism, and open borders are positions now seen as ‘racist’ by many on the left. Trump supporters are the new heretics. It’s why we see vicious attacks against people wearing MAGA hats.

It’s why we see bike locks used to crack skulls during protests. It’s why we now see milkshakes being thrown. Tossing them at people you disagree with has become the new trend among the left. While not dangerously violent, getting hit by one is definitely messy and humiliating. Burger King even indirectly virtue signaled for their use—and that’s shameful.

As the next presidential election approaches, I expect the divide to widen and the name-calling to intensify. Sticks and stones may break bones and words can sometimes lead toward using sticks and stones. I’d rather stick with rational debate.

—Ben Garrison

https://grrrgraphics.com/how-the-left-wins-arguments

Notable: >>6563339, >>6563354 Evacuate Webber Falls, OK: Barges Loose Dam Threatened

Someone was saying earlier?

Notable: Wells, TD make 9 banks submitting Trump records to Gonadler

Notable?

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/wells-fargo-td-bank-have-turned-trumps-financial-records-over-to-house

Notable: Roger Stone contacts John Durham about FBI surveillance

Roger Stone contacts John Durham about FBI surveillance

Longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone sent a letter to U.S. Attorney John Durham this week seeking answers about whether he was a subject of surveillance by the U.S. government. "We have strong reason to believe that Mr. Stone was among three advisors to candidate Trump who was under surveillance by the FBI during the 2016 presidential campaign," Stone's lawyer Paul Jensen wrote in the letter obtained by The Hill. Jensen also said Stone's Fourth Amendment rights may have been violated.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/roger-stone-contacts-john-durham-about-fbi-surveillance

Intercepted Russian Communications Part of Inquiry Into Trump Associates

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/us/politics/trump-russia-associates-investigation.html

Durham has been tasked by Attorney General William Barr with reviewing the origins of the counterintelligence investigation into President Trump's campaign. Jensen cited a January 2017 New York Times article titled "Intercepted Russian Communications Part of Inquiry Into Trump Associates," which names Stone as one of at least three Trump campaign associates under scrutiny by American law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The other two were Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

Jensen also sent letters, dated May 20, to House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. The correspondence said Stone has reached out to the White House counsel to urge Trump to declassify documents related to the Russia investigation. If these records from the Justice Department and FBI are not released, Jensen said he would resort to suing the federal government.

According to Rep. Mark Meadows, a close ally of Trump, the declassification of Russia investigation documents are "right around the corner." In what appeared to be a nod of approval, Trump retweeted a Washington Examiner article of Meadows' comment on Wednesday.

Stone was arrested at his Florida home on Jan. 25 in a pre-dawn raid by the FBI. He was later charged by special counsel Robert Mueller with lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstructing justice. Stone was released on a $250,000 bond and has pleaded not guilty. He is set to go on trial starting Nov. 5.

Notable: Asian Market reports: chill from Sino-US tech war & China central bank plans offshore bills for sale (yuan jumps)

Asia Mkts feel chill from Sino-U.S. tech cold war

See this also.

China central bank plans offshore bills sale, yuan jumps

https://in.reuters.com/article/china-pboc-auction/china-central-bank-plans-offshore-bills-sale-yuan-jumps-idINKCN1SR12N

See cap#3

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian shares were stuck in the red on Thursday amid worries the Sino-U.S. trade conflict was fast morphing into a technology cold war between the world’s two largest economies.

Late Wednesday, Reuters reported the U.S. administration was considering Huawei-like sanctions on Chinese video surveillance firm Hikvision over the country’s treatment of its Uighur Muslim minority, according to a person briefed on the matter.

After the United States placed Huawei Technologies on a trade blacklist last week, British chip designer ARM has halted relations with Huawei in order to comply with the blockade.

“For China, the key risk is that the combined effects of investment restrictions, export controls, and tariffs will rewire supply chains and weaken manufacturing investment, particularly in the technology sectors driving growth,” ratings agency S&P warned in a special report.

Japan’s Nikkei slipped 0.5% in early trade, while South Korea lost 0.3%.

MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan eased 0.01% to hover just above a 16-week trough. E-Mini futures for the S&P 500 edged down 0.17%.

Minutes of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s last meeting out on Wednesday underlined its readiness to be patient on policy “for some time” given the uncertain global outlook.

The chance of a rate cut seemed to diminish as many Fed policy makers saw recent weakness in inflation as “transitory”, though the latest escalation in the trade war means markets are still wagering on an eventual easing.

Yields on two-year Treasuries of 2.237% are also well below the current effective funds rate at 2.39%.

There remains no end in sight to the trade dispute. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Wednesday said it would be at least a month before the U.S. would enact proposed tariffs on $300 billion in Chinese imports as it studies the impact on American consumers.

The mood on Wall Street was cautious with the Dow ending Wednesday down 0.39%, while the S&P 500 lost 0.28% and the Nasdaq 0.45%.

Shares in chipmaker Qualcomm Inc dived 10.9% after a federal judge ruled the company illegally suppressed competition in the market for smartphone chips by threatening to cut off supplies and extracting excessive licensing fees.

In commodity markets, spot gold edged up a touch to $1,274.25 per ounce.

Oil prices were consolidating after falling around 2% overnight as an unexpected build in U.S. crude inventories compounded investor worries about demand.

U.S. crude was last down 8 cents at $61.34 a barrel, while Brent crude futures lost 12 cents to $70.87.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-markets/asia-feels-chill-from-sino-u-s-tech-cold-war-idUSKCN1ST01Y

https://www.cnbc.com/asia-markets/

See also this:

Fed minutes: No rate moves are coming ‘for some time’ even if the economy improves

-Minutes from the May 1-2 Federal Open Market Committee meeting say “members observed that a patient approach to determining future adjustments to the target range for the federal funds rate would likely remain appropriate for some time.”

-“Participants continued to view sustained expansion of economic activity, with strong labor market conditions, and inflation near the Committee’s symmetric 2 percent objective as the most likely outcomes,” the minutes also say.

-The minutes note that members attributed the low inflation readings to “idiosyncratic factors” such as sharp drops in apparel costs and from portfolio management services.

-The meeting was held before the blowup in U.S.-China trade talks.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/22/fed-minutes-from-may-meeting.html

Notable: POTUS will travel to Japan on May 25-28

So, didn’t Q say POTUS would be protected and out of the country when the SHTF…

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-japan-visit-idUSKCN1RV04R

Notable: Democrats carp about suspicious curtains, chair placement after Trump infrastructure blowout

Democrats carp about suspicious curtains, chair placement after Trump infrastructure blowout

Democratic leaders fixated on the decor of the room after President Trump abruptly shut down an infrastructure meeting at the White House on Wednesday. Two lawmakers — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md. — noted how the Cabinet Room was set up in an uninviting fashion when they arrived.

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"It's clear that this was not a spontaneous move on the president's part. It was planned," Schumer told reporters. "When we got in the room, the curtains were closed. The president — there was a place for him at the front so he could stand and attempt to tell us why he wouldn't do infrastructure. And of course then he went to the Rose Garden with prepared signs that had been printed up long before our meeting." In an interview with MSNBC, Hoyer also mentioned the curtains, as well as the lack of a certain chair. "When we walked into the Cabinet Room, it was different," Hoyer said. "And what was different was the curtains were drawn on the windows looking out on the Rose Garden. So — which I said, 'That's kind of funny. I wonder if somebody was taking pictures or something and made a mistake and didn't put the curtains back in place.' So we could not see outside of the room." While they waited for the president, whom Hoyer said was 10 minutes late, he also noticed there was no chair where he usually sits. "So there is no doubt in my mind this was a show with no go on infrastructure," he added.

After a brief three-minute encounter, Trump left the room and addressed reporters in the Rose Garden. He said he was particularly upset about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., suggesting he engaged in a "cover-up." "Instead of walking in happily into a meeting, I walk in to look at people that have just said that I was doing a cover-up. I don't do cover-ups," Trump said. Trump said Democrats would have to drop investigations before he could work with them. Pelosi told reporters after the scrapped meeting that Trump "wasn't really respectful of the reason — of the Congress and the White House working together." "He just took a pass," she added. "And it just makes me wonder why he did that."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/democrats-carp-about-suspicious-curtains-chair-placement-after-trump-infrastructure-blowout

Notable: Moar on Kappy DIGG

Kappys handler is straight Tavistock garden level San Pedro Coven creepy.

This story is getting good.

Dig

Notable: Trump lawyers & House Dems ask Federal Court of Appeals to expedite proceedings in subpoena suit

Trump lawyers, House Democrats ask federal court of appeals to expedite proceedings in subpoena suit

President Trump, his accounting firm, and House Democrats jointly requested an expedited hearing from the D.C. Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals in a filing submitted late Wednesday. The move speeds up a case that could reach the Supreme Court and have broad implications over congressional investigations into the president’s finances and businesses and whether he may have violated laws or a clause in the Constitution. The lawsuit could also have broader implications over setting precedent for Congress’ investigatory power.

Under terms agreed upon by the three parties, Trump’s legal team would submit a brief by June 12, while House Democrats and the accounting firm, Mazars USA LLP, would be expected to submit their own briefs by July 3, and a final reply brief from Trump’s team submitted by July 12. The three parties request that the court hold oral arguments as soon as possible. If the court denies the motion to expedite, then Trump’s legal team plans to file an emergency motion to stay a lower court’s decision on Monday to allow the subpoena to move forward.

The accounting firm said if the motion to expedite is not granted by the court, it would not provide documents until the court decides on the Trump legal team’s emergency motion. Democrats agreed to suspend the deadline set by the subpoena while the appeal is argued in court. Mazars agreed to continue preparing material for a response to the subpoena in case Trump’s legal team loses its appeal of Monday’s lower court decision to uphold the congressional subpoena.

The case began when Trump sued the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and his accounting firm to prevent a subpoena of his financial records with that firm. House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., subpoenaed the firm after Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, testified earlier this year that Trump misrepresented his finances in business dealings and possibly with the IRS.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/trump-lawyers-house-democrats-ask-federal-court-of-appeals-to-expedite-proceedings-in-subpoena-suit

Notable: Rybicki transcript confirms LL directed Comey to call it a "matter", others were present

Loretta's got some explaining to do…

Notable: >>6562781 John Solomon Files Motion Asking FISA Court to Unseal Evidence of Wrongdoing in Russia Collusion Case

Seriously, this is all it took to start declass?

Notable: "Non-partisan" Democracy Alliance Members Fund ‘American Oversight’ Investigations of Trump

Democracy Alliance Members Fund ‘American Oversight’ Investigations of Trump

Group running FOIA op on Trump admin claims to be nonpartisan

Two members of the Democracy Alliance contributed seed money in 2017 to a new organization created to file hundreds of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests in hopes of unearthing scandal on the Trump administration. Recent IRS disclosures show $280,000 in combined donations from Democracy Alliance members Patricia (Pat) Stryker and Scott Wallace to the nonprofit American Oversight, which bills itself as the "top Freedom of Information Act litigator investigating the Trump administration."

IRS 990 forms show that money is just shy of ten percent of the $3.44 million assembled for the first-year launch of American Oversight, which currently claims to have lodged more than 100 FOIA lawsuits in its quest for documents on the current administration. American Oversight has portrayed itself as nonpartisan since its inception despite relying on funding from prominent members of the progressive Democracy Alliance, members of which agree to donate heavily to liberal causes, and the focus of its mission. "Corruption starts at the top," the group's website states on its "About" page. "From President Trump's failure to divest from his business empire to cabinet secretaries using their taxpayer-funded positions for their personal benefit, the Trump administration has been plagued by scandal, misconduct, and conflicts of interest."

Last year, American Oversight was in the news for its aggressive efforts to uncover documents from Brett Kavanaugh's work in the 1990s on the investigation of President Clinton, documents liberals hoped might derail his confirmation to the nation's highest court. American Oversight's efforts parallel another D.C.-based organization attacking the Trump administration, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). CREW wasted no time in inundating the new presidential administration with ethics complaints. Memos obtained exclusively by the Free Beacon at a January 2017 meeting of elite progressive donors show that future success for CREW would mean Trump would "be afflicted by a steady flow of damaging information, new revelations, and an inability to avoid conflicts issues."

None of the documents obtained by the Free Beacon at that time mentioned American Oversight specifically, but the group was founded less than three months later. Furthermore, an analysis by the website Influence Watch, a project of the conservative leaning Capital Research Center, determined that at "the end of 2018, at least 11 of American Oversight's 17 staffers and three of its four board members have known career histories with major left-wing organizations, Democratic Party campaigns, or Democratic officials." The current senior adviser at American Oversight previously worked at CREW. "American Oversight publishes all of our records requests, lawsuits, and the documents we obtain on our website so the public can easily see our work and our priorities," the group's communications director, Clark Pettig, said in an email. "We are an independent nonprofit and we make financial disclosures consistent with the law."

https://freebeacon.com/politics/democracy-alliance-members-fund-american-oversight-investigations-of-trump/

Notable: Anon response to >>6561140 pb "NXIVM's tentacles extend deep into the Cabal"

To the anon who did recent notable >>6561140 "NXIVM's tentacles extend deep into the Cabal."

SNC-Lavalin Chairman Kevin Lynch is classic Quigley Anglo-American establishment Deep State. (pb)

Other Board member is Trudeau Foundation Board (suspected pedo dimension) and Canadian Trilateral Foundation.

Papa D points to UK. So did Quigley, so does "Hidden History."

WWG1WGA

Notable: Hillary’s Resistance Group Has Pocketed Millions From The DCCC

Hillary’s Resistance Group Has Pocketed Millions From The DCCC

Clinton's dark money nonprofit raked in $3 million for its email lists

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), which works to elect Democrats to the House of Representatives, disbursed millions of its funds to Hillary Clinton's "resistance" group since late December 2017, according to Federal Election Commission filings. The DCCC made the millions in payments to Onward Together, a nonprofit founded by Clinton following her loss to President Donald Trump, for its email lists. The payments from the DCCC to Onward Together began in December 2017. Since that time, the committee reported 25 transactions to Clinton's group totaling slightly more than $3 million, the filings show. The most recent payments from the DCCC to the committee were made in February. In addition to the DCCC, the Democratic National Committee pushed $1.65 million to Clinton's group throughout 2018. The payments from the DNC, which were marked primarily as list acquisitions with one payment going towards direct mail, stopped in late October of last year.

Clinton launched Onward Together to allow her to be a "part of the resistance" against Trump and Republicans following the 2016 elections. The group was incorporated in April 2017 by Marc Elias, a partner at the Washington, D.C., office of the Perkins Coie law firm, who is involved with a number of Democratic politicians and party efforts. Elias acted as Clinton's top lawyer during her failed 2016 run and is now aiding Sen. Kamala Harris's (D., Calif.) presidential campaign. Onward Together was established to push money to other resistance groups and to assist them with strategic leadership, guidance, and exposure. The group is registered as a 501(c)4 nonprofit, or a "social welfare" organization, and does not disclose its donors.

Despite Clinton's name recognition, Onward Together collected just $3.2 million in contributions from the time of its incorporation, April 24, 2017, to March 31, 2018. While Clinton does not disclose the donors to her group, the Washington Free Beacon previously found that she had transferred $800,000 from Hillary for America, her presidential campaign committee, to the group within a week of its launch. Kelly Mehlenbacher, the treasurer for Clinton's campaign committee, is also the chief operating officer of Onward Together.

Onward Together works with 13 other resistance organizations and dished out $1.8 million to groups during its inaugural year. Onward Together currently partners with the likes of Demand Justice, a group led by Clinton's former press secretary Brian Fallon, Color of Change, co-founded by CNN contributor and activist Van Jones, and Latino Victory, co-founded by actress Eva Longoria and San Antonio-based businessman Henry R. Muñoz III, who has chaired the DNC's finance committee since 2013. The DCCC did not respond to requests for comment on the payments to Clinton's resistance group from the committee

https://freebeacon.com/politics/hillarys-resistance-group-has-pocketed-millions-from-the-dccc/

https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?two_year_transaction_period=2018&data_type=processed&committee_id=C00000935&recipient_name=onward+together&min_date=01%2F01%2F2017&max_date=12%2F31%2F2018

https://www.onwardtogether.org/organizations/

Notable: Reminder: Bill Clinton's crime bill destroyed lives, and there's no point denying it (4-15-16)

I am finally seeing cracks in the facade.

Black democrat congress rep APOLOGIZES for voting on Clinton crime bill, says it made things worse for the black community.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/276143-black-lawmaker-ashamed-of-vote-for-clinton-crime-bill

Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) said Wednesday he was “ashamed" of his vote for the 1994 crime bill.

The lawmaker said he wanted to apologize to his constituents for supporting the bill, signed into law by President Clinton, which has become a point of contention in the current White House race.

"That was the worst vote, as I've looked over the years, that I've taken since I've been in the Congress," stated Rush.

The law resulted in a national wave of incarceration that disproportionately hit black men. Rush, who is black, said the law focused too much on "locking them up" and included no resources on "love and compassion."

"As a result, we have devastated our communities, devastated our families, devastated our futures,” said Rush, who has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.

He called crack cocaine and the crime law the “the two worst issues, problems, catastrophes that the black community has suffered from in the last 15 years.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/15/bill-clinton-crime-bill-hillary-black-lives-thomas-frank

The reason the 1994 crime bill upsets people is not because they stupidly believe Bill Clinton invented these things; it is because they know he encouraged them. Because the Democrats’ capitulation to the rightwing incarceration agenda was a turning point in its own right.

Another interesting fact. Two weeks after Clinton signed the big crime bill in September 1994, he enacted the Riegle-Neal interstate banking bill, the first in a series of moves deregulating the financial industry. The juxtaposition between the two is kind of shocking, when you think about it: low-level drug users felt the full weight of state power at the same moment that bankers saw the shackles that bound them removed. The newspaper headline announcing the discovery of this amazing historical finding will have to come from my imagination – Back-to-Back 1994 Laws Freed Bankers And Imprisoned Poor, perhaps – but the historical pattern is worth noting nevertheless, since it persisted all throughout Clinton’s administration.

For one class of Americans, Clinton brought emancipation, a prayed-for deliverance from out of Glass–Steagall’s house of bondage. For another class of Americans, Clinton brought discipline: long prison stretches for drug users; perpetual insecurity for welfare mothers; and intimidation for blue-collar workers whose bosses Clinton thoughtfully armed with the North American Free Trade Agreement.

WORTH a read.

Notable: Dems Tied to Obama’s Pro-Iran ‘Echo Chamber’ Spread Terror Regime’s Anti-Trump Talking Points

Dems Tied to Obama’s Pro-Iran ‘Echo Chamber’ Spread Terror Regime’s Anti-Trump Talking Points

Seeking to drive wedge between Trump and his national security team, team Obama in lock step with Iran

A cadre of former top Obama administration figures and their allies in Congress have been working to amplify anti-Trump talking points issued by a senior Iranian regime official in what sources have described as an effort by Obama's pro-Iran echo chamber to drive a wedge between President Donald Trump and his national security team. As tensions mount between the United States and Iran, leading Democrats have become embroiled in controversy for widely repeating anti-Trump talking points first issued by Iran's hardline regime. Additionally, former top officials from the Obama administration have taken to social media and other outlets to push a narrative that Trump is at odds with his hawkish National Security Adviser John Bolton over how far to go in punishing Tehran for its global support of terrorism and continued efforts to secure contested nuclear technology.

The effort to push this narrative to the media has gained steam following a war of words between Trump and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, who is said to have been in contact with top Democrats in Congress and their allies in the Obama administration, sources said. Just days after Zarif labeled Bolton and other top Trump national security officials as the "B Team," former top Obama aides Ben Rhodes and Colin Kahl repeated this rhetoric online in a series of postings bashing Trump. Rhodes and Kahl are most well known as the creators of a pro-Iran "echo chamber" that was used to mislead Congress and the American public about the terms of the landmark nuclear deal, which Trump abandoned last year. It has become increasingly clear in recent days that these former officials and their Democratic allies in Congress are seeking to build support for the United States to reenter the Iran nuclear deal should a Democrat defeat Trump in the next election, as the Washington Free Beacon has reported in past weeks.

The direct line between Tehran and top Democrats spilled further into public view last week when photographs from the cellphone of Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D., Calif.), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, showed that she had been in contact with Zarif, a primary architect of the nuclear accord. Photographs of Feinstein's phone showed a contact page with Zarif's information, prompting her office to rebuff requests for explanation. "I can't comment on who the senator does or doesn't speak with," Feinstein's communication's director told Politico. Multiple officials involved in the Iran debate expressed shock that leading Democrats continue to boost Iran's anti-Trump threats. They view the network of former officials and their allies as doing all they can to subvert Trump, even if it means siding with the Iranian regime in the standoff between the two countries.

"Obama's echo chamber and their pro-Iran deal allies in Congress are putting partisan politics over country, and have the chutzpah to literally repeat the Iranian regime's talking points," said one senior GOP congressional official, who would speak only on background to discuss the growing divide. "The truth is that, under Obama's disgraceful and dangerous nuclear deal, Iran got access to over $100 billion in immediate sanctions and a green light to ramp up its support for terrorism and militancy in the Middle East," the source said. "Iran, under Obama's watch, joined forces with Russia to prop up the Assad regime [in Syria], which repeatedly used chemical weapons and barrel bombs on civilians and is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of civilians." "While Team Obama stood idly by as Iran-backed aggression ravaged the Middle East, President Trump is maximizing coercive economic pressure on the Iranian regime and deterring and punishing Iranian-backed aggression against American interests," the official said.

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/dems-tied-to-obamas-pro-iran-echo-chamber-amplify-top-iranian-officials-talking-points/

https://twitter.com/heshmatalavi/status/1129126050317967360?s=21

https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/1129204638085918720

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2019/05/16/what-dianne-feinsteins-phone-told-us-437020

Notable: >>6562513 Syria update

SYRIA UPDATE

More Syrians return from Jordan camps through Nassib crossing

SANA’s reporter in Daraa said that a new batch of displaced Syrians on Wednesday returned from Azraq Camp in Jordan via Nassib border crossing to be transported later to their areas liberated by the Syrian Arab Army from terrorism.

The returnees, numbered 20.000 since the re-opening of the border crossing on October 15th, returned to Syria, using temporary passage tickets, head of the Immigration and Passports department at Nassib crossing Mazen Ghandour said.

https://sana.sy/en/?p=166145

Nearly 10 persons die every day at Rukban and Houl camps suffering from deterioration of humanitarian situation

“The humanitarian situation in al-Rukban and al-Houl camps is in continuous deterioration in light of catastrophic conditions where residents suffer from severe decrease in water, food and medical care which lead to the death of between 7 to 10 persons every day,” the two bodies said in a statement.

https://sana.sy/en/?p=166164

Armed Drone Swarm Attacks Strategic Syrian Airbase In Northern Hama

A squadron of armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) attacked Hama’s airbase in the outskirt of the city’s center in the late hours of May 22.

Pro-government sources said that the Syrian Air Defense Forces (SyAADF) intercepted the UAVs and managed to shoot down all of them. According to the sources, the airbase didn’t sustain any damage as a result of the attack. However, Hama airbase was not the only target of the attack. The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) confirmed that at least one UAV attacked the Zara’a power plant in southern Hama causing “extensive damage to the plant’s equipment.”

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, yet. However, pro-movement sources accused Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and its Turkish-backed allies, who launched a large-scale attack on the SAA in northern Hama earlier.

https://southfront.org/armed-drone-swarm-attacks-strategic-syrian-army-airbase-in-northern-hama-video/

Turkish Military Convoy Including Officers Enters South of Aleppo

Eight vehicles carrying Turkish soldiers and officers travelled to south of Aleppo city, as the Free Syrian Army prepares to hit the regime reports Smart News.

https://syrianobserver.com/EN/news/50585/turkish-military-convoy-including-officers-enters-south-of-aleppo.html

Kafr Nabudah Falls Under Militants’ Pressure. Army Withdraws To Nearby Positions

The strategic town of Kafr Nabudah in the northern Hama countryside has fallen into the hands of Hay’at Tahrir al-Shame (HTS) and its Turkish-backed allies, once again.

In the noon of May 22, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) withdrew from the town after more than 12 hours of heavy clashes, during which several waves of attacks by HTS were repelled. The army is currently holding onto its remaining positions in the town’s vicinity.

https://southfront.org/kafr-nabudah-falls-under-militants-pressure-army-withdraws-to-nearby-positions-map-video/

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Notable: Marines Tweet: The Best Offense is a Good Defense

U.S. Marines Tweeted:

The Best Offense is a Good Defense

https://twitter.com/USMC/status/1131349021715570688

Notable: Side by side on the Long Beach terror attack

Side by side on the Long Beach terror attack

#8389

>>6561014 (pb notable) Federal grand jury charges San Fernando Valley man with planning Long Beach terror attack in plot to cause mass casualties.

Notable: pb Side by side on Long Beach Terror attack

>>6562032

>>6562089

>>6562098

>>6562278

Side By Side on the Long Beach Terror Attack

Notable: NXIVM wanted branding ceremonies to be like sacrifices.

https:// nypost.com/2019/05/22/nxivm-leader-wanted-branding-ceremonies-to-be-like-human-sacrifices/

Notable: DeVos family ends longtime Amash support.

DeVos family ends longtime Amash support

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2019/05/22/devos-family-ends-longtime-amash-support/3768422002/

Notable: Washington becomes a sanctuary state.

https://newsbreakinglive.com/2019/05/22/breaking-washington-becomes-a-sanctuary-state/

Notable: Panasonic halting business with Huawei.

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1131346220008366080

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/494784828722909185

Notable: >>6562362 OANN deleted the Q hit piece by Posobiec.

Well Well, OANN Deleted Q Hit Piece

Remember Jack Pissobeak's Microdick Q Anon Fake News Hit Job he did on OANN???

The Article is gone but OANN didn't get Jack-off the news crew.

Shame on OANN.

https://www.oann.com/exposed-creator-of-qanon-speaks-for-the-first-time/

Anons never forget…

Notable: >>6562174, >>6562221 NCMEC tied to Roths, Clinton, Podesta.

Hit song Runaway Train’ turns 25 and gets a new video. This time technology is used to find missing kids (CNN)

In 1992, the band Soul Asylum in partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children released an iconic music video featuring missing children from around the country.

For the song’s 25th anniversary, NCMEC has released a new version of “Runway Train,” with a new artist and a new generation of children, which includes geo-targeting technology.

The new music video is the first time the NCMEC has used geo-targeting technology to find these missing children. Viewers may be familiar with the technology through advertising, such as on Facebook or Instagram.

The technology uses an individual’s IP address to find out their general location. In the case of missing children, the video inserts the children that went missing closest to a viewer’s area.

Why use the technology? Because according to the NCMEC, 61% of children reported missing are found in the state in which they disappeared.

According to the FBI, over 424,000 children were entered as missing in the National Crime Information Center database in 2018. The figure reflects the number of reports of missing children, according to the NCMEC website.

In 2018, the NCMEC said one in seven of the 23,000 juvenile runaways were likely the victims of child sex trafficking.

The original video helped recover 21 missing children, according to the NCMEC.

Even though the video only shows a handful of children, it was recut and released every time a child was found, resulting in multiple versions. The center is hoping that with the combination of the technology and the age of social media will help significantly increase the original number.

The center collaborated with several prominent artists, such as Jamie N Commons and Grammy nominees Skylar Grey and Gallant, to create the new music video.

https://kxlh.com/cnn-national/2019/05/22/hit-song-runaway-train-turns-25-and-gets-a-new-video-this-time-technology-is-used-to-find-missing-kids/

Notable: Pompeo on American values.

KansasSez:

.@SecPompeo: Individual liberty, democratic self-governance & national sovereignty are the cornerstones of our societies. Along w/our Judeo-Christian heritage, they underlie our countries’ thriving relationship. I’m confident they’ll continue to do so in the days to come. #Israel

CST

https://twitter.com/StateDept/status/1131341226022543360

SUCK on that GoatFuckers!

Notable: John Solomon files motion related to the FISA courts.

https://www.slfliberty.org/single-post/2019/05/22/FISA-Motion-Filed-John-Solomon—Public-Trust-in-Justice

https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1131341382650683393

Notable: pb Federal Grand Jury Charges San Fernando Valley man with planning Long Beach Terror attack

>>6561990

DOJ publication on this…

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-grand-jury-charges-san-fernando-valley-man-planning-long-beach-terror-attack-plot

Notable: William Sweeney Transcripts notes: crimes against children had 3 hits.

>>6561332 (lb)

>William Sweeney Transcripts notes

crimes against children had 3 hits

Notable: Courts prepare for influx of child sex abuse filings.

Courts prepare for influx of child sex abuse filings

https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/courts-prepare-for-influx-of-child-sex-abuse-filings

Notable: Mnuchin: No Tubman 20 until 2028.

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1131334774453297152

Notable: Loop capital using municipal bonds to fund shady projects?

shit frens just saw this (pic) and may have connected new dots.

loop capital handles munis AND …munis arent just issued by cities. also by nonprofits and charities.

think production function or black box. pay2play pymts going in would raise eyebrows if they served as means to finance i dunno orphanage in haiti… on paper. too many eyes on it bribes go in raising attention… to shadyness coming out other end.

what to do?! devise a funding scheme to take attention off shadyness coming on out side, deal with pay2play inputs with some other slight of hand. Enter munis. But law says sure your a 4013c you can issue them, but theres no window like with fed reserve and tbills. how do you ramp up demand. you find a " market maker" to broker you a demand. enter loop capital.

think about it… ask if you gots questions

and shadilay fags!

Notable: Japanese mobile carriers postpone sales of new Huawei smartphones.

Japanese mobile carriers postpone sales of new Huawei smartphones

TOKYO (Kyodo) – Two major Japanese mobile phone service operators said Wednesday they will postpone sales of new smartphone handsets produced by Huawei Technologies Co. after Washington effectively banned U.S. firms from exporting components to the Chinese tech giant.

KDDI Corp. and SoftBank Corp. have both said they will put off sales of Huawei's new smartphone models for their "au" and "Y!mobile" wireless services respectively, initially scheduled to begin later this month.

Another major mobile carrier, NTT Docomo Inc., said the same day it will stop taking orders for the new Huawei handsets, although the company said last Thursday it will launch a new high-end Huawei model in the summer.

KDDI and SoftBank said they made the decision as it remains unclear whether U.S. technology giant Google LLC will continue providing services, including its Android operating system, to the Chinese smartphone maker following a national emergency over technology threats declared by U.S. President Donald Trump last week.

Trump said the government was banning American companies from using telecom technology and services provided by entities deemed a national security threat, a move apparently targeting Huawei.

"We need to check whether our customers will be able to safely use Huawei smartphones amid concerns over Google's (future) move," a SoftBank spokesman said.

Google said Tuesday in a statement it will be able to provide software updates and security patches to existing Huawei smartphones as the U.S. Commerce Department eased restrictions to let American firms offer maintenance work for the Chinese mobile phone maker for 90 days.

Still, concerns remain over services for Huawei's new smartphones as it is uncertain whether popular applications such as Gmail and Youtube offered by Google can be used on the handsets in the future.

The developments come despite Huawei's efforts to ensure it will continue offering services without disruption.

"There will be no impact on our existing products and services," Wu Bo, Huawei Device Co.'s regional president covering Japan and Korea, told reporters on Tuesday in Tokyo.

A Huawei senior official said the company is planning to introduce its own operating system for its smartphones possibly this fall as a countermeasure to the U.S. restrictions, according to the Chinese media.

The Chinese mobile phone manufacturer had the fifth-largest smartphone shipment volume in Japan accounting for 6.2 percent of the total in the year ended in March after Apple Inc., Sharp Corp., Sony Mobile Communications Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190522/p2g/00m/0bu/073000c

Notable: Biden/China marker.

>>6561791

This marker seems to be legit.

Implies Tidal Wave Coming, Buckle Up

Which is confirmed by J. Solomon saying Declas 5-7 days (counting from last night?)

Notable: Q clock update. Re-read crumbs.

Q CLOCK UPDATE - RE-READ CRUMBS

Today's Q Clock :51

Final stage.

You are safe.

THEY are terrified.

You are witnessing the collapse of the largest pre-planned and coordinated propaganda event in modern day history.

FIRE AT WILL, COMMANDER.

[D] party con.

You can RUN but you can't HIDE.

Today's :25/:55 Q Clock Mirror :58

5:5

Why are D's opposed to cleaning up voter rolls?

Corruption.

Full attack mode.

What a wonderful day!

[Across all major MSM networks]

Right on schedule.

Today's 180-Degree Q Clock Mirror :21

[30]

Lawmakers learned gmail draft comms yesterday?

Lawmakers go hunting?

Mueller & U1?

What are the powers of Huber / IG (H)?

re: HRC insurance [win]

Insert Rudy.

THIS IS ABOUT SAVING AMERICA. WRWY N1LB FG&C WWG1WGA!

Notable: PapaD Tweet.

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1131333104210079747

Notable: Committee announces request to expedite appeal for subpoena of #President’s financial records.

BREAKING: Committee announces request to expedite appeal for subpoena of #President’s Financial Records. Full Release:

https://twitter.com/OversightDems/status/1131328468820602885

Notable: >>6561731, >>6561904 Judge Ramos (ruled against POTUS) involved in China/Iran? Found in Clinton emails.

>>6561475 /lb

U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos - Obama judge who ruled against Trump

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

does judge Ramos have ties to CHINA?

https://www.reuters.com/article/petrochina-lawsuit-idUSL1N10E2QT20150803

The case is In re PetroChina Co Ltd Securities Litigation, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 13-06180.

Notable: POTUS: Fusion GPS set up TT meeting.

https://twitter.com/gatewaypundit/status/1131316096445890561

Notable: UK: Leadsom resigns over new Brexit approach.

Another resignation

In latest blow to Britain's May, Leadsom resigns over new Brexit approach

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-leadsom-idUSKCN1SS2LW

Notable: >>6561506 Pentagon considering sending 5k (10k?) additional troops to Middle East.

https://twitter.com/Global_Mil_Info/status/1131315702319726592

Notable: NSA Hawaii, Snowden, China/NK, PDB.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nsa-hawaii-exclusive-inside-look-front-lines-intelligence-gathering/

An interesting Q proof from this article? Q151

NSA Hawaii, Snowden, China/NK, PDB

Notable: Long Beach Port/Richard Blum dig.

>>6560396

>>6560449

Long Beach Port/Richard Blum dig

Notable: NXIVM's tentacles extend deep into the Cabal.

>>6561115

baker

Full NXIVM connections that I have found or that have been brought to my attention. Special thanks to the many Anons that made this possible.

Connections are as follows -

NXIVM to:

Epstein

Gillibrand

No Name

The AZ Mafia

The Dalai Lama (and Lama Tenzin's affair with Sara Bronfman)

Richard Branson (appears in Epsteins "Little Black Book")

Trudeau

SNC-Lavalin (Neil Bruce, CEO, Emma Griffin - Bruce's wife)

- Stephen Bronfman (Sara's cousin, Emma Griffin works at Claridge, Stephen's investment firm in Canada)

Basit Igtet (married to Sara Bronfman, Libyan who tried to gain power in his home country post-Gaddafi)

Al-Saadi Gaddafi, Libya

NOTE: This image is massive, so the Mega link is below. This is a 50% scale.

==link== https://www.megaupload.us/ta/FULL_NXIVM.png

sauce:

https://billlawrenceonline.com/justin-trudeau-nxivm-connection/

https://edmontonsun.com/news/national/the-sex-side-of-the-snc-scandal/wcm/852a8284-086c-4816-bb63-c21291c37bbb

https://nypost.com/2007/10/01/hillarys-30000-fans-are-her-cult-following/

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1101550823383814144.html

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/justin-trudeau-adviser-stephen-bronfman-offshore-paradise-papers

http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/sara-bronfmans-husband-basit-igtet-has-ties-to-muslim-terrorists-and-cult-leader-raniere/

http://www.claridgeinc.com/

image now attached

Notable: Mossad also has VC wing.

Mossad and the Rise of the VC-Spy Alliance

The growth of intelligence agencies in the 21st century has been powered by the development of new technologies, created by start-ups, which are powered by intelligence agencies. This unvirtuous circle of money and espionage is a new and daunting challenge for civil liberties and human rights groups.

The U.S intelligence community has a venture capital organization, Inqtel, founded by the CIA in 1999. Now Israel’s Mossad has Libertad Ventures.

As The Times of Israel reports

Libertad was set up as a strategic investment arm of the Mossad. Its purpose is to help build the organization’s technological capabilities and create a bridge to the Israeli startup industry. Since its establishment, the fund has received hundreds of applications from both Israeli and foreign entrepreneurs, the statement said. The Mossad, the Shin Bet security agency and even the Israeli army are stepping out of the shadows and opening up to working with civilian firms, as greater cooperation is needed .

“Stepping out of the shadows” is another way of saying intelligence services are increasingly open about what they used to do secretly.

Inqtel’s board of trustees is an all-star team of Silicon Valley bankers and intelligence agency operatives, including former CIA director George Tenet. Its alumni includes dozens of high tech firms. Libertad, by contrast, says it will not disclose the name of companies it funds.

The alliance of venture capital and secret intelligence professionals serves the needs of both. The technologists gets funding. The spies get cutting edge tools to surveill enemies, control dissidents, and wage war: spyware, facial recognition technology, and autonomous weapons to name a few.

Some of these technologies may make the public safer–detection of chemical and nuclear weapons–but all of them make secret intelligence agencies stronger.

Israeli’s NSO Group exemplifies the VC-spy alliance. Created by veterans of Israeli signals intelligence service in 2011, NSO created the Pegasus software that can covertly take control of a mobile phone, copy its data and turn on the microphone for surveillance, all via a single phone call via What’sApp. NSO spyware has been licensed to dozens of countries including Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Bahrain and the UAE.

In February, Novalpina Capital, a London-based hedge fund, bought a controlling interest in the NSO Group. Spyware, it seems, is a high-growth investment opportunity.

https://deepstateblog.org/2019/05/22/mossad-and-the-rise-of-the-vc-spy-alliance/

Notable: Netflix dumps stock.

NFLX CEO sells $20m is stock-May 20

For the day crew, filed late last night-think pepe doesn't look?-think again-PEPE KNOWS.

Netflix specializes in on-line viewing services for films and television series provided continuously by subscription. Members pay a monthly fee for access to unlimited on-demand content on their computers (PC and MAC), portable telephones, televisions, or other devices (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, Blu-Ray, etc.) connected to the Internet. The group is also involved in DVD leasing by mail.

The United States accounts for 50.7% of net sales.

Number of employees : 7 100 people.

https://www.marketscreener.com/NETFLIX-44292425/company/

This link will get you to the total amount of share sales since 2014.

https://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/1065280.htm

Notable: U.S. adopts Al-Qaeda claims on chemical attack, promises “quick and appropriate” response.

U.S. Adopts Al-Qaeda Claims On Chemical Attack, Promises “Quick And Appropriate” Response

The U.S. has adopted claims of the former branch of al-Qaeda in Syria, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), accusing the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) of carrying out a “chemical attack” on the town of Kabani in northern Lattakia on May 19.

In an official statement by the Department of State, Washington said that it is monitoring “signs” that the SAA may be “renewing its use of chemical weapons.”

Washington based its accusations on the claims of HTS, which said that SAA targeted positions of its “Mujahedeen” near Kabani with three munitions loaded with “chlorine gas.” The terrorist group itself acknowledged that nobody was killed or even injured in the supposed attack.

“We are still gathering information on this incident, but we repeat our warning that if the Assad regime uses chemical weapons, the United States and our allies will respond quickly and appropriately,” the Department of State said in its statement that was released on May 21.

The Department of State didn’t only adopt al-Qaeda narrative, but went on to claim the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) had proved that chemical weapons were used by the SAA in previous cases. This is false. The state department even accused the SAA and Russian forces of “fabricating” the November 24 chemical attack on the government-controlled city of Aleppo.

These accusations provoked response from both pro-government and pro-opposition sources. Even the widely known pro-opposition outlet, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) deounced the US claims.

In a press release posted on its official Facebook page, the UK-based monitoring group slammed the U.S. accusations, saying that no “chemical attack was documented in northern Lattakia”. The group also confirmed that there are no civilians in the region, which is occupied by HTS and other “Jihadi” groups.

“I don’t know how the U.S. is adopting the information of the al-Nusra Front [HTS’ original name] in a region, where only al-Nusra’s members are present … I don’t know why the U.S. is adopting something that we found no evidence for on the ground,” director of the SOHR, Rami Abd al-Rahman, said in a phone call with the BBC on May 21.

The Department of State’s statement is the clearest evidence of how the U.S. uses the “chemical weapons” pretext to pressure Damascus, even if this means empowering terrorist groups, including al-Qaeda.

https://southfront.org/u-s-adopts-al-qaeda-claims-on-chemical-attack-promises-quick-and-appropriate-response/

Notable: Rumors of May resigning shortly.

It’s snibbining

Notable: Man arrested on terror charges after discussing bombing Trump Tower.

Report: Man Arrested on Terror Charges After Discussing Bombing Trump Tower

A New Jersey man is under arrest on terror charges after holding discussions about bombing Trump Tower and New York City’s Israeli Consulate, according to NBC 4 report, citing law enforcement sources. The suspect, 20-year-old Jonathan Xie of Basking Ridge, was taken into police custody Wednesday morning on charges stemming from attempting to provide material support to a designated terror group, making a threat of interstate commerce, and making false statements. NBC 4 further reports the man made false statements to enlist in the U.S. military and transferred funds overseas to aid Hamas terrorists. Xie is said to have also issued a series of threats to “pro-Israel” organizations in the U.S.

Prosecutors say he went as far as completing a Security Clearance Application for National Security Positions in February and answered “no” to the question “Have you ever associated with anyone involved in activities to further terrorism.” An error occurred in the application processing and he had to do it again 10 days later. Again, he answered no to that question. […] Last month, FBI surveillance saw Xie outside Trump Tower in Manhattan. Shortly thereafter, according to Instagram records, he posted two photos to his account, one with the words “[S]hould I bomb Trump Tower,” a “Yes/No” poll and an emoji of a bomb imposed over the Trump Tower building image.

In a follow-up post, criminal complaint records say the suspect then posted on Instagram, writing: “Okay, so I went to NYC today and passed by Trump Tower and then I started laughing hysterically . . . s*** I forgot to visit the Israeli embassy in NYC … i want to bomb this place along with trump tower.” He is scheduled to appear in federal court in Newark in the coming hours, law enforcement sources told NBC 4.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/22/report-man-arrested-on-terror-charges-after-discussing-bombing-trump-tower/

Hamas-Obsessed NJ Man Spoke of NYC Terror Attacks, Sent Money to Militants and Polled Instagram Audience 'Should I Bomb Trump Tower?,' Court Documents Say

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/New-Jersey-Terror-Trump-Tower-Bombing-510273571.html

Notable: US Army Tweet pointer to Q's net will be blocked?

U.S. Army Tweets:

#IfSocialMediaDidntExist

Just know, #IfSocialMediaDidntExist, your #USArmy #Soldiers would still be ready to defend the nation.

Q drop says, "Net will be paused."

https://twitter.com/USArmy/status/1131250979343622144

Notable: National women’s fencing coach resigns after questioning sex harassment, abuse claim against Penn State assistant.

National women’s fencing coach resigns after questioning sex harassment, abuse claim against Penn State assistant

An internationally renowned fencing coach and longtime leader of the U.S. Women’s Saber Team has resigned in the aftermath of an Inquirer report that he was upset one of his past mentees had filed a sexual-misconduct claim against an assistant fencing coach at Pennsylvania State University.

USA Fencing confirmed Monday in an email that Ed Korfanty stepped down as national coach, but did not respond to questions about the reason for his resignation. Korfanty, a coach in Portland, Ore., could not be reached for comment this week.

https://www.philly.com/news/saber-fencing-coach-ed-korfanty-resigns-penn-state-sex-assault-claim-20190521.html

Notable: McCabe reveals he’s the one who decided to remove Strzok from Mueller’s team.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/20/mueller-investigation-mccabe-strzok-1336694

McCabe reveals he’s the one who decided to remove Strzok from Mueller’s team

It's long been gospel in the Russia probe: When special counsel Robert Mueller learned of the inflammatory anti-Trump text messages FBI agent Peter Strzok sent, he immediately removed him from his team.

But in a newly released transcript of a December 2017 interview, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe told lawmakers that he's the one who made the call to oust Strzok from the probe, worrying that Strzok's involvement could taint the special counsel's work.

In a closed-door interview with the House Judiciary and Oversight committees, McCabe said he learned of Strzok's text messages on July 27, 2017, and made a quick decision.

"I made the decision to remove him from the investigation that evening," McCabe said at the time.

"That very day you decided to remove him?" Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) asked.

"I came back from my meeting with the inspector general. I met with a very small group of my fellow leaders. We discussed Peter's reassignment, and we discussed where we would place him," McCabe replied.

It’s unclear whether Mueller was informed at the time.

Notable: Federal grand jury charges San Fernando Valley man with planning Long Beach terror attack in plot to cause mass casualties.

Federal Grand Jury Charges San Fernando Valley Man with Planning Long Beach Terror Attack in Plot to Cause Mass Casualties

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-grand-jury-charges-san-fernando-valley-man-planning-long-beach-terror-attack-plot

Notable: Chinese airlines demand compensation from Boeing over 737 Max grounding.

Chinese airlines demand compensation from Boeing over 737 Max grounding

Hong Kong(CNN Business) Three of China's largest airlines have joined a growing list of carriers demanding compensation from Boeing over the grounding of its 737 Max aircraft.

Air China, China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines told CNN Business on Wednesday that they have asked to be reimbursed for costs they have incurred since the plane was deemed unsafe to fly following two crashes.

They cited losses caused by being unable to fly the aircraft and delayed deliveries of more jets.

The companies did not disclose how much in damages they are seeking from Boeing (BA).

China Southern has as many as 24 737 Max jets and Air China has 15 of the planes in its fleet, spokespeople for the companies said. China Eastern has 14 737 Max planes, according to Chinese state-run media.

An Air China Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane seen on March 11 after it was grounded in Beijing.

An Air China Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane seen on March 11 after it was grounded in Beijing.

The 737 Max, Boeing's best-selling plane, has been grounded since March. China was the first country to ban the 737 Max 8 from its skies after an Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed earlier that month, killing all 157 people on board. That followed another tragic incident in October, when a 737 Max 8 operated by Lion Air crashed off of Indonesia, leaving 189 passengers dead.

The grounding has already cost airlines hundreds of millions of dollars. American Airlines (AAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV) and Norwegian Air all revealed last month that the loss of the troubled plane has forced them to cancel a growing number of flights, and will cost them nearly $600 million combined.

Norwegian Air and Flydubai, budget carriers in Europe and the Middle East respectively, have also demanded money back from Boeing recently, and Turkish Air and Ryanair (RYAAY) are reportedly seeking compensation, too. Ryanair and Turkish Air did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CNN Business.

The continuing crisis is already hurting Boeing's bottom line. The company reported in April that profits fell 21% in the first quarter of this year because of safety questions clouding the company's reputation.

Airlines have completely stopped ordering the jet in the wake of the two crashes. There were zero orders for the 737 Max in March, and only 10 purchases in the first quarter of 2019 compared to 112 in the same period last year, according to data released by Boeing last month.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/05/22/business/boeing-737-max-air-china/index.html

Notable: Fluoride chemicals added to U.S. drinking water are unprocessed toxic waste.

Fluoride chemicals added to U.S. drinking water are unprocessed TOXIC WASTE

Having access to fluoridated drinking water that can supposedly improve your dental health sounds like a first-world luxury on the surface – but the truth is that it’s a recipe for ill health and experts are calling for this dangerous practice to be stopped.

In fact, America is one of very few developed countries that fluoridates its water, with Green Med Info reporting that just 5 percent of the world’s population consumes this type of water. More people in America drink it than in all other nations combined, and we’re paying the price in terms of our health.

That’s because the fluoride chemicals that are placed in our drinking water are actually unprocessed toxic waste products. Most people never take the time to question where all that fluoride added to our water comes from, and the answer is shocking: It is generally pollutants captured from the phosphate fertilizer industry in Florida or chemical imports that come from China, known for a lack of regulation and adulteration. These chemicals aren’t purified before they’re added to drinking water, and it’s not at all unusual for them to contain significant amounts of heavy metals like arsenic, mercury and lead.

Fluoride’s many dangers outweigh any possible benefits

Researchers have expressed concerns about the lack of regulation and safety of fluoride additives. Studies have shown it’s a neurotoxin that can be linked to problems like lower IQ in children, premature birth, neurological development impairments, autism, and preeclampsia. In fact, some experts believe the unusually high rate of premature birth in the U.S. could be related to the practice of fluoridating water.

https://governmentslaves.news/2019/05/22/fluoride-chemicals-added-to-u-s-drinking-water-are-unprocessed-toxic-waste/

Notable: US military developing wireless tech to control weapons with your mind.

US Military Developing Wireless Tech to Control Weapons With Your Mind

DARPA wants to wirelessly connect human brains to machines, allowing soldiers to fully control weapon systems, view things remotely like a Three-Eyed Raven, or feel stuff remotely.

Imagine the potential applications, not only for military control of airplanes and weapons, but also for civilian uses, from controlling artificial vision systems to completely immersive virtual reality systems that will transport your consciousness to alternate relatives.

It’s the stuff of science fiction, but scientists have already made some advances in the field. The first human neuroprosthetic devices appeared in the mid-1990s, allowing patients to crudely control artificial limbs. But those required surgical interventions. More experiments during the early 2010s showed that scientists could reconstruct people’s vision into digital video, but that’s far from being real time. Most recently, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have figured out how to connect two brains, using a machine to transfer information wirelessly.

Now Darpa wants to take this nascent technology to its inevitable conclusion. According to the agency, the N3 project — Next-Generation Non-Surgical Neurotechnology — aims to “create reliable neural interfaces without the need for surgery or implanted electrodes.”

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/darpa-mind-control-weapons-n3-project,news-30136.html

Notable: Lynch testimony: Interesting Q&As

LL Testimony

These Q&A sections were interesting.

Recordings of Trump (citizen trump, PE, Pres), and a reference to "Other countries potentially involved"

LL received a defensive briefing of some emails that potentially compromised her in Comeys eyes?

Comey confirms 4 FISAs on Americans. (we assume Page, PapaD, Flynn, Manafort) - i'd be happy to be wrong in this assumption.

Notable: US Market Report

US Market Report

Volumes

DOW

Volume 238,679,183

Avg. Volume 297,331,451

NAS

Volume 1,686,783,393

Avg. Volume 2,214,094,193

Twatter shorts burned today.

SP500

Volume 1,754,469,231

Avg. Volume 3,533,145,483

()and bold are additions and edited for content.

Fed Minutes fail to fend off the selling pressure as the POTUS cranks up the pressure on China

Chinese stocks were lower overnight (but ChiNext remain green on the week?).

waiting for the announcement they are printing-they are imo.

European markets were mixed with Germany modestly higher against weakness in the periphery.

US markets tumbled on the day with Trannies tanking worst… Another weak close took The S&P red on the week and Dow very modestly higher.

Today was the 7th day in a row of the opening-ramp.

PANIC

We noticed that the machines kept wanting to lift Nasdaq futures back to the scene of the crime last night when NYT headlines reported the HIKvision blacklist…but each one failed.

Afterhours trading is VERY thin and can be manipulated very easily.

"Most Shorted" stocks tumbled today (so get yourself ready for a squeeze tomorrow?)

except TWATTER-go figure.

Tesla bonds and stocks tumbled further on the day (with default odds now near 50%).

with VW coming and gunning for it it's time for this company to admit defeat.

Treasury yields tumbled on the day, pushing 30Y (outperforming) back to unch on the week

see cap#3-mmmmkay!

10Y Yields dropped back below 2.40% again today.

lowering the discount rate at last meeting not such a good idea eh FOMC?

The yield curve extended its flattening trend after FOMC Minutes.

The Dollar is pinging around like a penny stock this week, but bounced very modestly higher after the hawkish tone from the Minutes.

Cable just keeps falling as rumors of May's demise rise.

really trying to push that down imo.

WTI almost tested a $60 handle intraday.

see cap#4-this is good for us.

And global money supply support is disappearing.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-22/stocks-bond-yields-tumble-trade-turmoil-sparks-breakdown-boom-bust-barometer

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/bond/tmubmusd30y?countrycode=bx

https://www.dailyfx.com/crude-oil

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EIXIC?p=^IXIC

Notable: , >>6560588, >>6560611 Judge: Release POTUS' financial records

>>6560459

timestampcapCST

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1131288049671913472

notable suggest

Notable: Jeffrey Rosen sworn in as Deputy AG

New DAG https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1131231770697977857?s=19

Notable: Trump admin withholding wildfire assistance to California

Trump Administration Withholding Wildfire Assistance To California After Audit Suggests Financial Mismanagement

The Trump administration is withholding over $9 million in wildfire assistance to California after a financial audit suggested the state was overbilling the U.S. Forest Service for costs incurred fighting fires on federal lands, officials said. The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) said the withheld funds from the original $72 million reimbursement request are owed to local fire departments for costs incurred during the 2018 wildfire season, which took the lives of at least 85 people. The Forest Service said it needs to see the receipts before disbursing any more funds under the California Fire Assistance Agreement (CFAA).

“The audit found that the current CFAA does not result in reimbursement of actual expenses to local fire departments,” the Forest Service said in a statement Wednesday to the Los Angeles Times. “Our intentions are to fully reimburse the State of California for all of their actual expenses. The only payments that we have not made are those that do not have documentation that substantiate actual expenses.” The Cal OES said the federal government is unfairly changing the terms of the CFAA at the tail-end of the five-year agreement set to expire in 2020. Under the original terms of the agreement, the state would submit the average personnel costs incurred by the thousands of firefighters fighting wildfires on federal lands each year, but now the Forest Service is requesting a line-item tabulation of salary, travel and other expenses incurred by each firefighter.

President Donald Trump said in November 2018 that California’s “gross mismanagement of the forests” was the cause of 2018’s deadly wildfire season, and threatened to withhold federal assistance if changes weren’t made. The president’s comments drew the ire of Senate Republicans such as Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Cory Gardner of Colorado. Cal OES Fire Chief Brian Marshall said in a letter to the Forest Service that its requirements “would be cumbersome and would severely impact California’s ability to respond to fires,” especially for smaller fire departments heavily reliant on volunteers. The typical California wildfire season runs from summer to early autumn.

Marshall said he was only briefed on portions of the audit’s findings, and accused the federal government of withholding its full results. “It wasn’t a typical audit that you see from the government. It was a PowerPoint; it wasn’t an audit. They said ‘overcharging.’ But they also said ‘undercharging,'” Marshall told the Times. “They won’t tell us if they’re going to be able to pay our volunteers or not.” Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California urged the Department of Agriculture and Forest Service in a May 14 letter to delay the implementation of the audit findings until renegotiations of the CFAA at the end of 2019. “As you know, around 60 percent of forested land in California is owned by the federal government,” Feinstein said. “Wildfires don’t stop at jurisdictional boundaries, so a unified federal-state approach is the only way to properly protect lives and property … Given increased wildfire risks in recent years, I do not believe that any action should be taken to jeopardize that partnership.” But the Forest Service insists it will not relent on its new reporting requirements. “The Forest Service is ultimately accountable to American taxpayers and has the responsibility to practice due diligence in review of all fire-related claims made by local governments,” the service told McClatchy on Monday. “The audit found several areas where the CFAA is not being managed to ensure mutual benefit between the Forest Service and the State of California.” The Forest Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/05/22/trump-forest-service-california-fires

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1061168803218948096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Letter

https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/0/4/0453b025-0d5b-43c1-9843-c3e7c397ead5/5F15722D44366080888C25313EC7A0DB.2019.05.14-cfaa-letter.pdf

Notable: , >>6560449 Long Beach Container Terminal Sold for $1.8b

>>6560365

With Acquisition of California Port, China Broadens Influence on US Commerce

In recent weeks, numerous national security concerns have been raised regarding Chinese corporations and their increasing ownership of American businesses and trading ports. This alarm comes in the wake of China’s largest shipping company, Cosco Shipping Holdings Co., taking control of a major US trade terminal in Long Beach, California. The Long Beach acquisition is part of Cosco’s six-billion-dollar buyout of rival Asian shipping giant, the Hong Kong-based Orient Overseas International Ltd.

Whereas Cosco’s ownership of the California port is a smart move for the Chinese economy, American trade insiders have expressed skepticism over the acquisition’s benefits for the United States, worried it may jeopardize national security.

https://amac.us/with-acquisition-of-california-port-china-broadens-influence-on-us-commerce/

Notable: , >>6560385 More on the Alan Krueger "suicide" pb >>6559256

>>6559256 (Pb & N) Alan Krueger "suicide"

Alan Krueger visited the WH 68 times between March 2009 and July 2016 - 31 of those meetings were w/Matthew Tulley. I can't find a quick reference that notes Matthew Tulley's gov. job description/title. His company bio says nothing about a stint w/hussein; bit of a mystery there. So a finance guy (Krueger) visits the WH 31 times to see an attorney who is a military law wunderkind/advisor to hussein (Tulley) and winds up dead. Tulley has a moar charmed life than Krueger apparently, having 'escaped' the twin towers while working for Morgan Stanley on 9/11 and an Afghanistan suicide bomber.

According to Wiki: Tully is a lawyer practicing military law, federal employment discrimination, family law, and criminal defense. He is a founding partner of the law firm Tully Rinckey PLLC.[1] Because of Tully's veteran status, Tully Rinckey PLLC is certified as a service-disabled, veteran-owned business.[2]

Tully helped then Senator Barack Obama modify the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) in 2007 before it was signed into law by President George W. Bush.[3]

Tulley company bio archived here: http://archive.fo/em4k0

Wiki archived here: http://archive.fo/BxoNb

quest: https://qest.us/obamavisitors/default.asp?

Notable: 35 arrests in human sex trafficking sting in Warren

Reminder that 'stuff' is happening: from May 17, 2019

35 arrests in human sex trafficking sting in Warren

Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press

Nearly three dozen johns and prostitutes were hauled out of hotels and motels in Warren this week as police began a crackdown on human sex trafficking in the city.

Seventeen women and 18 men from across metro Detroit were arrested during the first phase of Operation Crusade — from communities as far away as Farmington Hills and Bellevue and as close as Detroit and Roseville.

The three-day sweep started Tuesday and ended Friday morning and involved undercover male and female officers, Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer said. One private residence in the city also was involved in the sweep.

moar at link

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/macomb/2019/05/17/warren-human-sex-trafficking-arrests/3704866002/

Notable: Sailors at San Antonio-Lackland base charged with sexual assault

Five Sailors at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Charged with Sexual Assault

AUSTIN, Texas – Five sailors were arrested Friday at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas on charges that the men sexually assaulted a woman last year, law enforcement officials said.

The sailors arrested are Mauricio Chaparro, 28, Kenneth Johnson, 20, Anthony Cooney, 21, Dominick Burns, 20, and Kyle Tuschmann, 19, said Adelina Simpson, a spokeswoman for the Bexar County Sheriff's Department. The sailors spent the weekend in a county detention center and arrived Tuesday at a jail in Hays County, where the charges are filed. It is located just north of San Antonio, which is in Bexar County.

A Hays County grand jury indicted the men on April 24, each on four counts of aggravated sexual assault and with a bond of $500,000, according to indictment records. Burns, Cooney and Tuschmann are accused of performing sexual acts on the same woman and the other two men are listed as "intentionally and knowingly" participating in the crime, according to the records.

Police were called to the scene of the incident at about 10:13 p.m. on May 19, 2018, according to a San Marcos police report. A woman said she'd been sexually assaulted in the back of a truck at San Marcos' Rio Vista Park. The incident report states the woman initially did not want to pursue charges, but returned to a police station the next day and was cooperative.

Hays County District Attorney Wes Mau said Tuesday that he could not comment further on the case.

Bexar County Sheriff's Department took the five men into custody about 2 p.m. Friday at Lackland Air Force Base to transfer the sailors to Hays County, where they were indicted on the charges, Simpson said.

Base personnel escorted the men just outside the gates at Lackland, where local authorities arrested them, said Cmdr. James Stockman, spokesman for the Naval Education and Training Command.

The men all were students at the Navy's Master at Arms Apprenticeship Training at the Naval Technical Training Center in May 2018, located at Lackland, Stockman said. The seven-week training course prepares sailors to enter Navy law enforcement careers such as base security or dog handlers.

They had remained at the center "suspended in training status due to alleged misconduct," Stockman said.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/05/22/five-sailors-joint-base-san-antonio-lackland-charged-sexual-assault.html

Notable: 154 arrested in Florida prostitution, human trafficking sting

154 arrested during undercover Florida prostitution, human trafficking sting

MAY 21, 2019 (embedded 3 minute clip of official press announcement.)

POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WSVN) — A massive undercover operation has resulted in the arrests of over 150 people.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrests of 154 people after a six-day operation entitled “Operation No Spring Fling.”

The sheriff’s office said a 17-year-old girl and a 23-year-old woman were identified as likely victims of human trafficking. A 17-year-old boy who traveled to the undercover location is also being considered a victim of human trafficking.

The 154 suspects range in age from 17 to 69 years of age, and they include 69 prostitutes, 75 people who solicited prostitutes, two people accused of traveling to meet a minor and five people inside the country illegally.

One of the suspects included 34-year-old James Michels who, investigators said, traveled to meet with an undercover detective posing as a 14-year-old boy.

Investigators said Michels was HIV-positive yet told the undercover detective that he was not, and that he wanted to have unprotected sex. Authorities also said Michels had child pornography with him when he was arrested, including a piece of evidence showing the sexual battery of a child between 12 and 36 months.

A total of 46 felony charges and 202 misdemeanor charges were filed against the suspects.

https://wsvn.com/news/local/154-arrested-during-undercover-florida-prostitution-human-trafficking-sting/

Notable: House Intel, DOJ strike deal over counterintelligence documents

House Intel, DOJ Strike Deal Over Counterintelligence Documents

The House Intelligence Committee struck a deal late Tuesday with the Justice Department to avoid a subpoena fight over classified documents related to the Mueller probe.

California Rep. Adam Schiff, the chairman of the panel, said that the Justice Department has agreed to turn over twelve categories of counterintelligence and foreign intelligence materials starting this week

Stephen Boyd, the Justice Department’s congressional liaison, said in a letter that the agency would begin producing the documents contingent on Schiff tabling efforts to vote on any enforcement actions.

“To be clear should the Committee take the precipitous and unnecessary action of recommending a contempt finding or other enforcement action against the attorney general, then the Department will not likely be able to continue to work with the Committee to accommodate its interest in these materials,” Boyd wrote.

On May 8, Schiff subpoenaed the Justice Department for redacted materials in the special counsel’s report, including grand jury information. The subpoena also sought counterintelligence information that was not included in the lightly redacted report.

Schiff’s Republican counterpart, California Rep. Devin Nunes, also signed on to a letter on April 25 requesting counterintelligence materials from the special counsel’s probe, but did not join Schiff on the subpoena.

The Democrat and Republican likely have two separate agendas for wanting to see the information. Schiff hopes to find evidence that the Russian government has compromised President Trump or attempted to infiltrate the campaign. Nunes hopes the documents will shed light on the FBI’s handling of its investigation of Trump and his associates.

The special counsel’s report said that prosecutors were unable to establish that the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election. The report also said that there was not enough evidence to establish that any Trump associates acted as agents of the Russian government.

https://www.thedailysheeple.com/house-intel-doj-strike-deal-over-counterintelligence-documents/

Notable: 3 plead guilty in the college admissions scandal

https://twitter.com/DMAnews1/status/1131280549413380096

Notable: Pamela Anderson Writes Essay Defending Julian Assange

Pamela Anderson Writes Essay Defending Julian Assange

‘This is about the rape of justice’

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/women/pamela-anderson-julian-assange-rape-essay-wikileaks-making-of-rapist-a8923936.html

Notable: BO creates a backup for QRV

I created a backup for QRV which can be found at https://poal.co/s/QRP/59504

Notable: Barr puts Clapper and Brennan on notice

Attorney General Barr Puts Former Intel Bosses Clapper, Brennan On Notice

Things seem to be moving quickly now. It has been a remarkable few weeks in American history. Momentum is building toward uncovering the distasteful possibility that the targeting of a U.S. presidential campaign was actually a political operation, fostered at the highest levels of government, masquerading as an FBI counterintelligence investigation.

Attorney General William Barr has signaled that his interest in examining the origins of the investigation into the Trump campaign extends beyond whether the FBI operated “by the book,” as former FBI Director James Comey asserts. Barr also wants to understand the role that the larger intelligence community, or IC, may have played in all of this.

Barr has thrown punches that have left an interesting mix of characters with a standing eight count. Certain eyes around D.C. are a little glassy right now.

Barr’s words and actions are telling. First, he raised the concern that the Trump campaign was “spied” upon. His use of the word “spying” appears more calculated than casual. The wailing and gnashing of teeth that followed is also telling. “The FBI doesn’t spy” became the sputtering counter-refrain of those trying to mask their nervousness.

It’s a fair point that’s beside the point. The FBI is charged with acting under strict legal restrictions and court orders. Spying is not a term traditionally associated with those activities.

But it also misses the point Barr appears to be making. The IC does spy; that’s what they do. Barr may have been referring less to the FBI and more to the IC’s possible murky involvement.

This seems to be validated by Barr’s second haymaker in as many weeks: his appointment of a surrogate investigator, U.S. Attorney John Durham. Why would the attorney general add a third investigation to those under way by Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz and U.S. Attorney John Huber? Because those investigations are focused on the FBI. Durham’s assignment is not similarly constrained; his marching orders appear broader.

Through Durham, Barr can start dusting for fingerprints across the government, not just the FBI. The squirming has begun.

In just the past week, we’ve seen a rush to comment by the former directors of national intelligence and the CIA. The FBI’s former general counsel has chimed in publicly and, of course, fired FBI Director Comey has been on a media offensive, practicing character assassination as a strategy with Barr among those in his crosshairs.

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/444802-ag-barr-puts-former-intel-bosses-on-notice

Notable: Developing: More on Brennan's alleged 'fusion cell'

https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1131258194003726336

Notable: UK Deep State graphic

uk deep state stuff

Notable: Decode on password exposed, Pain -23 and follow the pen

>>6560013

>MASSIVE happenings. Tomorrow is EU Independence day. 23

23, you say….

hmmm

Notable: Questions raised over Florida Cabinet meeting in Israel

Questions raised over Florida Cabinet meeting in Israel

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is going to Israel with a large contingent of business leaders — not surprisingly, especially as the GOP woos Jewish voters ahead of the 2020 presidential election. But DeSantis' plan to hold a meeting with his elected Cabinet while he's there has raised concerns about whether officials are violating the state's open-meeting laws.

When DeSantis first announced the trade mission, he noted that his attorney general, chief financial officer and agriculture commissioner would accompany him, and that the Cabinet would hold a meeting at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem during the trip, which runs from May 25 to May 31.

Democratic Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried had previously planned a trade mission to the country, but there was no apparent reason why the other two were going, except for the Cabinet meeting.

"I see no reason to hold a Cabinet meeting in Israel," said Barbara Petersen, president of the open-government watchdog group First Amendment Foundation. "And we still don't have an agenda, so I don't know what they will be doing at that meeting."

By law, the state has to post an agenda seven days before the independently elected Cabinet members meet, except during an emergency. As of Tuesday, the Cabinet website not only didn't list an agenda for the meeting, it didn't even have the meeting on the calendar.

DeSantis' office isn't talking about his Israel plans, citing security issues. The Associated Press has made several requests to interview the governor about the trip by phone or in person, and his office said he wasn't available.

Even Cabinet officials said they didn't know what is on the agenda because the meeting is being organized by the governor's office. Fried speculated that it could be largely ceremonial.

"To have all four of us going over to show our support for the state of Israel and economic development between the two countries I think is the bigger picture," she said.

The Cabinet, which also includes Republican Attorney General Ashley Moody and Republican Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, is scheduled to meet in Tallahassee less than a week after the officials return home — another sign it will handle state business at home while focusing the meeting abroad on its support for and ties with Israel.

Still, Cabinet meetings are supposed to be accessible for all. But unless they want to pay close to $2,000 for a round-trip airline ticket, not many regular Floridians will be able to attend — even if they can figure out when it's going to be held.

The FLORIDA Channel, a state-funded video service run by WFSU-TV that covers state government meetings, plans to travel to Israel, but it is still working out details on how to get the content back to Florida.

"They should have an agenda up and they should be telling people where and when it's going to be," Petersen said of the governor's office. "It's nuts."

https://news.yahoo.com/questions-raised-over-florida-cabinet-meeting-israel-180823372.html

Notable: Q 1 Year today: Nellie Ohr's ham radio fail

one year delta today

Notable: Bipartisan group hold press conference to #StopEndlessWar

Bipartisan Group of Representatives, Including Thomas Massie and Barbara Lee, Hold Press Conference to #StopEndlessWar

A bipartisan group of representatives came together on Wednesday to stand against war with Iran and call for the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force to be repealed.

Speakers at the #StopEndlessWar press conference on Capitol Hill included Republican Rep. Thomas Massie and Rep. Barbara Lee.

On Tuesday, the House Appropriations Committee approved Rep. Lee’s amendment to the annual defense spending bill that would end the authorization for the use of military force (AUMF). The vote comes amid a rising push from neocons to go to war with Iran.

“The 2001 AUMF has been used as a blank check for endless war by three Administrations,” said Rep. Lee in a statement. “As the Trump Administration escalates tensions with Iran, it is more important than ever for Congress to reassert its constitutional authority. We must start by repealing the overly broad 2001 AUMF and do our job to debate and vote on any replacement.”

The AUMF was passed in the days following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and have since been used to authorize conflict 41 times in 18 countries — without congressional authorization. Rep. Lee was the only member of congress to vote against it at the time.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/bipartisan-group-of-representatives-including-thomas-massie-and-barbara-lee-hold-press-conference-to-stopendlesswar/

Notable: , >>6559913 Leader of House of Commons, Andrea Leadsom, resigns

BREAKING: Leader of House of Commons, Andrea Leadsom has resigned from the Government.

Notable: Did Brennan convene a secret task force at CIA HQ in 2016?

in the summer of 2016:

CIA Director John Brennan convened a secret task force at CIA headquarters composed of several dozen analysts and officers from the CIA, the NSA and the FBI…It functioned as a “sealed compartment” hidden even from the rest of the U.S. intelligence community; a unit whose workers were all made to sign additional non-disclosure forms.”

They worked exclusively for two groups of “customers,” officials said. The first was Obama and fewer than 14 senior officials in government. The second was a team of operations specialists at the CIA, NSA and FBI who took direction from the task force on where to aim their subsequent efforts to collect more intelligence on Russia.

The article said that initially, only four senior officials were allowed access to the Russian investigation intelligence. This group included Brennan, then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and then-FBI Director James Comey.

Gradually, the circle widened to include Vice President Biden and others. Agendas sent to Cabinet secretaries — including John F. Kerry at the State Department and Ashton B. Carter at the Pentagon

BARR:

It was sort of an ad hoc, small group — and most of these people are no longer with the FBI or the CIA or the other agencies involved. I think there’s a misconception out there that we know a lot about what happened. The fact of the matter is, Bob Mueller did not look at the government’s activities.

https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2019/05/22/maintain-secrecy-trumprussia-meetings-obama-officials-cut-video-feed-situation-room/

Notable: Theresa May reportedly to resign within hours

Theresa May Reportedly To Resign In Hours

Update (12:15 pm ET): A senior No. 10 source has reportedly stepped up to deny reports about the PM's impending resignation.

Yet, cabinet ministers' angst over May's 'New Deal' continues to fester, and a flurry of meetings involving the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers, May's chief whip, and various cabinet ministers, are underway in Westminster.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-22/theresa-may-reportedly-resign-hours

Notable: Oregon: Patriots create new "TRUMP Rally: For God & Country"

Afternoon, anons! Been away for over a week now (other than brief check-ins for notable archiving). I am returning with news. There is something BIG in the works in the northwest(I live out here). Patriots & anons have discreetly come together rapidly to pull off a

TRUMP RALLY right in the heart of liberal OREGON before the Libs knew what was happening!

Liberals frantically tweeting "He's already campaigning! You better have a plan, Kate Brown!!" (Or Gov.) KEK!

It's registered as an event at the state capitol front steps on Saturday 6-29-19 at 1pm. Going to be advertised in newspapers & online beginning this weekend along with the distributions of hundreds of flyers and a deployment of a Facebook event and other promoted social media posts. They're launching a website in the next day or so.

They're not just gathering to celebrate Trump or MAGA.

They are seeing this as a kick off for something NATIONWIDE. Whole slogan: "TRUMP Rally: For God & Country". These guys are taking on every issue and believe POTUS is the only man for the job. Now and in 2020!

•1A

•2A

•Roe V Wade/Abortion

•Immigration/Asylum/VoterFraud/ID

•Russia Hoax/Now investigating investigators

•Traditional/Christian Values

•Oregon Politics Spotlight

They've tagged Oregon AND Washington GOP leadership in a post by one of the organizers and asked them to get behind this thing.

Anons, if this thing takes off the libs will absolutely LOSE THEIR MINDS.

If the 35% of nonvoters hear about any of the stuff these people cover, and they likely will with how controversial the topics are and with their tagline "For God and Country", it could legitimately turn the west back to red. If only they knew what the left were up to….

Using hashtag #SilentMajorityNoMore #TrumpRallyPNW

Here's the post with all the info on the event & the GOP tagged. https://twitter.com/shelly1c/status/1130939920405581824

-Just a northwest anon who's gonna get involved in this. Doing it, Q! I'll still be here, but I am done sitting on the sidelines. It's coming to my city and I'm gonna be there for God, my Country and my POTUS. Hope it DOES go nationwide so all you faggots can do the same.

o7 Much love and nohomo

Notable: Tesla drops for sixth straight session, down 20% since share offer

Tesla drops for sixth straight session, down 20% since share offer

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Shares of Tesla fell for a sixth straight session on Wednesday after Citi cut its price target on the struggling electric car maker, leaving buyers of its recent share offer,

including Chief Executive Elon Musk, $167 million in the hole.

Tesla’s stock dropped 4.3% to $196.10, on track to close below $200 for the first time since late 2016. It has tumbled 20% since the company sold a $1.84 billion convertible bond and almost $900 million of stock on May 2 to raise fresh capital and give it more time to stop losing money.

Citi analyst Itay Michaeli, who has a “sell” rating on Tesla, cut his price target to $191 from $238. He pointed to a an email Musk sent to employees last week, telling them he would increase cost-cutting, and that the $2.7 billion in recently raised capital would give Tesla just 10 months to break even at the rate it burned cash in the first quarter.

“The recent reported internal memo, which seemingly called into question prior guidance, didn’t help the risk/reward calculus. The implications can be serious, since an automaker’s balance sheet is always subject to the confidence ‘spiral’ risk,” Michaeli wrote in a client note.

Musk is battling to convince investors that demand remains high for the Model 3, the sedan targeted to propel Tesla to sustainable profit, and that it can be delivered efficiently and swiftly to customers around the world. Tesla lost $702 million in the first quarter and warned that profit would be delayed until the latter half of the year.

Musk on Tuesday exercised options to buy 175,000 Tesla shares at $31.17 per share, increasing his indirect stake in the company to 34,102,560 shares, according to a filing. With Tesla’s stock down 41% year to date, Musk’s shares, including 102,880 he bought in this month’s capital raise, were worth $6.7 billion on Wednesday.

Tesla’s debt has stalled at lows hit earlier this week. Its recently issued convertible bond due in 2024 priced at 89.09 cents on the dollar, a record low. Its $1.8 billion junk bond traded at 82.5 cents on the dollar, slightly up from the all-time lows it hit on Monday and Tuesday.

The cost to insure Tesla’s debt, as measured by its credit default swap, edged up to roughly 28% of the face value of Tesla’s 2025 bond, from 27.6 % the day before.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-stocks-tesla/tesla-drops-for-sixth-straight-session-down-20-since-share-offer-idUSKCN1SS2DL

Notable: Amazon shareholders reject facial recognition sale ban to governments

Amazon shareholders reject facial recognition sale ban to governments

(see cap#2 for the list of "shareholders".)

Amazon shareholders have rejected two proposals that would have requested the company not to sell its facial recognition technology to government customers.

The breakdown of the votes is not immediately known. A filing with the vote tally is expected later this week.

The first proposal would have requested Amazon to limit the sale of its Rekognition technology to police, law enforcement and federal agencies. A second resolution would have demanded an independent human and civil rights review into the use of the technology.

It followed accusations that the technology has bias and inaccuracies, which critics say can be used to racially discriminate against minorities.

The votes were non-binding, allowing the company to reject the outcome of the vote.

But the vote was almost inevitably set to fail. Following his divorce, Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos retains 12 percent of the company’s stock as well as the voting rights in his ex-wife’s remaining stake. The company’s top four institutional shareholders, including The Vanguard Group, Blackrock, FMR and State Street, collectively hold about the same amount of voting rights as Bezos.

The resolutions failed despite an effort by the ACLU to back the measures, which the civil liberties group accused the tech giant of being “non-responsive” to privacy concerns.

In remarks, Shankar Narayan, ACLU of Washington, said: “The fact that there needed to be a vote on this is an embarrassment for Amazon’s leadership team. It demonstrates shareholders do not have confidence that company executives are properly understanding or addressing the civil and human rights impacts of its role in facilitating pervasive government surveillance.”

“While we have yet to see the exact breakdown of the vote, this shareholder intervention should serve as a wake-up call for the company to reckon with the real harms of face surveillance and to change course,” he said.

The civil liberties group rallied investors ahead of the Wednesday annual meeting in Seattle, where the tech giant has its headquarters. In a letter, the group said the sale of Amazon’s facial recognition tech to government agencies “fundamentally alters the balance of power between government and individuals, arming governments with unprecedented power to track, control, and harm people.”

“As shown by a long history of other surveillance technologies, face surveillance is certain to be disproportionately aimed at immigrants, religious minorities, people of color, activists, and other vulnerable communities,” the letter added.

The ACLU said investors and shareholders had the power “to protect Amazon from its own failed judgment.”

Amazon pushed back against claims that the technology is inaccurate, and called on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to block the shareholder proposal prior to its annual shareholder meeting. The government agency blocked Amazon’s efforts to stop the vote, amid growing scrutiny of its product.

Amazon spokesperson Lauren Lynch said on Tuesday, prior to the meeting, that the company operates “in line with our code of conduct which governs how we run our business and the use of our products.”

An email to the company following Wednesday’s meeting was un-returned at the time of writing.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/22/amazon-reject-facial-recognition-proposals/

https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amzn/institutional-holdings

Notable: 'Racist' Ralph releases statement after investigation

Virginia Gov. 'Racist' Ralph releases statement after investigation finds no proof that he is in the picture he already apologized for.

https://twitter.com/JTHVerhovek/status/1131250720047489024

Notable: , >>6559449 Q posts 1 year ago today: IT'S HAPPENING & v 11.9

Q post 1 year ago today: IT'S HAPPENING.

Notable: , >>6559438 Ben Carson testifying and hitting back at Omar

Ben Carson fires back after Ilhan Omar suggests he wasn’t "fully awake" during hearing

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/445026-carson-invokes-abortion-in-twitter-response-jab-from-omar

Notable: Does the Queen wear the crown or does the Crown rule the queen?

>>6558034 pb

>“Crown Dossier”

>>6558054 pb

Does the Queen wear the crown or does the Crown rule the queen?

http://falsificationofhistory.co.uk/banksters/the-city-of-london/

Notable: New restrictions on sharing of military operations with Congress

Shanahan orders new restrictions on sharing of military operations with Congress: report

Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan has ordered new restrictions on how the Pentagon shares information about international military operations with Congress, according to an internal memo obtained by The Washington Post.

The May 8 document lists criteria for when Defense Department officials are allowed to provide congressional offices or committees with information regarding operational plans and orders, according to the newspaper.

The memo comes amid criticism from Capitol Hill that the Trump administration is withholding information to impede a slate of oversight probes in the House. Some lawmakers have also expressed concerns that the Defense Department is becoming too involved in President Trump’s immigration policy, according to the Post

“Congress oversees the Department of Defense; but with this new policy, the department is overstepping its authority by presuming to determine what warrants legislative oversight,” Reps. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and Mac Thornberry (R-Tex.), the chair and ranking Republican of the House Armed Services Committee, told the Post.

The Pentagon hit back at the criticism, saying the new policy is intended to increase transparency between the Pentagon and Congress.

“In establishing this policy, Secretary Shanahan seeks to increase transparency and information-sharing with Congress. Under his direction, the Department of Defense has been engaging with the Senate and House Armed Services Committees to develop a process for providing Congress with access to plans and operational orders, including Executive Orders. This policy establishes such a process. Previously, no such policy existed,” Joe Buccino, a spokesman for Shanahan, said in a statement to The Hill.

The memo, which was reportedly shared widely within the Pentagon but was sent to key lawmakers after inquiries from The Post, lists six guidelines for information sharing with Capitol Hill.

The document orders military officials and political appointees to determine whether a congressional request “contains sufficient information to demonstrate a relationship to the legislative function” and urges officials to provide a summary briefing instead of the requested plan or order itself.

It also gives responsibility for evaluating congressional requests to the undersecretary of defense for policy, often a political appointee. Officials across the Pentagon previously responded to requests on an ad hoc basis.

The memo appears to arise from worries that lawmakers could leak military plans, calling on officials to evaluate “whether the degree of protection from unauthorized disclosure that Congress will afford to the plan is equivalent to that afforded” by the Pentagon, according to The Post.

The memo “seems to be another way in which they can claim that they don’t need to respond to legitimate inquiry of Congress,” Sen. Jack Reed, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told the Post.

“From what I can glean from the memorandum basically they can use any factor they want to say no and they can make a determination what they think we need to do our job,” he continued. “I think we’re better positioned to determine what we need to do our job.”

An anonymous Pentagon official told The Post that the agency’s officials had been worried about potential congressional interference in the formulation of military plans, what the Defense Department considers to be an executive branch function. The official added that Congress had been most interested in Special Operations activities, which are highly sensitive and have produced significant public backlash in recent years.

Shanahan is due to appear in an upcoming confirmation hearing in front of the Senate after Trump nominated him to be Secretary of Defense, a position Shanahan has taken on an Acting basis after the resignation of James Mattis.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/445025-shanahan-orders-new-restrictions-on-sharing-of-military-information-with

Notable: , >>6559346 Planefag Updates

ty baker .

FBI Manassas to San Juan Puerto Rico

Notable: Another Clinton / Obama connected suicide, Professor Alan B. Krueger

https://seattletest.com/former-obama-and-clinton-official-found-dead-of-apparent-suicide-2

Another person with direct ties to Clinton and Obama has supposedly commited suicide, according to reports.

Professor Alan Krueger was found dead in his home, according to Princeton Police.

Krueger served as a top adviser to Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

The 58-year-old committed suicide, his family said in a separate statement released by the school Monday, New York Post reports.

“It is with tremendous sadness we share that Professor Alan B. Krueger, beloved husband, father, son, brother, and Princeton professor of economics took his own life over the weekend,” the family said. “The family requests the time and space to grieve and remember him.”

Krueger served as a Labor Department economist under Clinton, then as a top Treasury official for Obama. From 2011 to 2013, he was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.

But we tend to find the death suspicious.

This man was totally successful and actually has a book scheduled to be released in June.

He had everything to live for so why commit suicide?

There are many theories floating around on social media:

“Why did Alan Krueger commit suicide when he has a book coming out June of 2019?”

“Hmm I wonder what dirt he had on the Clintons?” another person asked.

“Well looks like the Suicide wave has started now that more evidence is surfacing. I wonder who is next!” another said.

“Oh, please, here we go again. How many people associated with the Clintons have committed “suicide” for one reason or another? It’s becoming a national epidemic. Of course, nothing will be done about it and no honest investigation will be allowed to open the Clinton graveyard and reopen the cases of people who committed “suicide,”‘ another peson wrote.

“The Clinton Hitman is the best you never heard of. CIA should have hired him- he might teach their assassins a thing or two. But then, he (or she) has never been named. Whomever is damned good,” another person said.

“Various contractors hired through the CIA’s database of known hit men. Hillary probably has them on Speed Dial.”

One thing for sure, he will never be able to testify against any of these people if he had dirt because he is dead.

You have to wonder what really happened.

We will never know.

Krueger is survived by his wife, Lisa, and two adult children, Benjamin and Sydney.

Rest in peace.

God Bless.

(sorry for spacing/copy n pasted)

Notable: , >>6559446 WH Graphic: The Mueller Investigation by the numbers

posted late last bread

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/justice-department-release-redacted-version-mueller-report/story?id=62201315&cid=clicksource_4380645_null_headlines

Notable: DJT Tweet compilation.

>>6558925

Moar DJT

So sad that Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer will never be able to see or understand the great promise of our Country. They can continue the Witch Hunt which has already cost $40M and been a tremendous waste of time and energy for everyone in America, or get back to work….

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….But they really want a do-over! You can’t investigate and legislate simultaneously - it just doesn’t work that way. You can’t go down two tracks at the same time. Let Chuck, Nancy, Jerry, Adam and all of the rest finish playing their games….

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….In the meantime, my Administration is achieving things that have never been done before, including unleashing perhaps the Greatest Economy in our Country’s history….

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@realDonaldTrump

….Democrat leadership is tearing the United States apart, but I will continue to set records for the American People – and Nancy, thank you so much for your prayers, I know you truly mean it!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1131243922188054529?s=20

Notable: DJT Tweet: Press conference video.

New DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1131242715834929154?s=20

Notable: Reminder Doug Collins released transcripts.

21.May.19

Interview Transkripts

http://dougcollins.house.gov/sites/dougcollins.house.gov/files/083118%20Anderson%20Interview_Redacted.pdf

https://dougcollins.house.gov/sites/dougcollins.house.gov/files/092818%20Sweeney%20Interview_Redacted.pdf

https://dougcollins.house.gov/sites/dougcollins.house.gov/files/Lynch%20Interview%2012-19-18.pdf

https://dougcollins.house.gov/sites/dougcollins.house.gov/files/Rybicki%20011818%20Interveiw_Redacted.pdf

https://dougcollins.house.gov/sites/dougcollins.house.gov/files/12.21.17%20McCabe%20Interview_Redacted.pdf

https://dougcollins.house.gov/sites/dougcollins.house.gov/files/081618%20Toscas%20Transcript_Redacted.pdf

https://dougcollins.house.gov/sites/dougcollins.house.gov/files/8.24.18%20Moffa%20Interview_Redacted%20DJ.pdf

https://dougcollins.house.gov/sites/dougcollins.house.gov/files/6.21.18%20Giacalone%20Interview_Redacted.pdf

https://dougcollins.house.gov/sites/dougcollins.house.gov/files/10.23.18%20Moyer%20Interview_Redacted%20DJ.pdf

https://dougcollins.house.gov/transparency

Notable: Oil sheds more than $1/bbl as U.S. inventories grow, demand worries flare

Oil sheds more than $1/bbl as U.S. inventories grow, demand worries flare

U.S. crude inventories rise to highest since July 2017

* U.S. gasoline stocks also show surprise build

* Saudi pledges to keep oil markets balanced, sustainable

NEW YORK, May 22 (Reuters) - Oil futures sank on Wednesdayas an unexpected build in U.S. crude stockpiles compoundedinvestor worries that a prolonged trade war between Washingtonand Beijing could dent crude demand.

Brent crude futures LCOc1 shed $1.01 a barrel, or 1.4%, to$71.17 a barrel by 11:07 a.m. EDT (1507 GMT). U.S. West TexasIntermediate (WTI) crude futures CLc1 dropped $1.28 a barrel,or 2.0%, to $61.85.

U.S. crude inventories swelled by 4.7 million barrels in thelatest week to their highest since July 2017, the U.S. EnergyInformation Administration reported. Analysts polled by Reutershad forecast a decrease of 599,000 barrels as refineries cutoutput.

"It's at the extreme end of the range of possibilities for a bearish report," said Bob Yawger, director of futures at Mizuhoin New York. "It's about as bad as it could have been considering the fact that driving season is so close."

Gasoline stocks posted a surprise build as well, rising by3.7 million barrels compared with analysts' expectations for an 816,000-barrel drop.

The prospect of a long-term tariff fight between China andthe United States also pressured prices. No further talksbetween top officials have been scheduled since the last roundended in a stalemate on May 10.

The conflict is weighing on economic growth forecasts andoil demand predictions. The Organization for EconomicCo-Operation and Development (OECD) on Tuesday revised down itsglobal growth forecast for the year.

Growing tensions between the United States and Iran, whichcould to supply disruptions, helped limit losses.

The prospect that the Organization of the PetroleumExporting Countries and its allies will continue its output cutpact later into the year was also supportive.

Saudi Arabia, OPEC's defacto leader, said it was committedto a balanced and sustainable oil market.

U.S. bank Morgan Stanley said it expected Brent prices totrade in a $75-$80 per barrel range in the second-half of thisyear, pushed up by tight supply and demand fundamentals.

https://www.nasdaq.com/article/oil-sheds-more-than-1bbl-as-us-inventories-grow-demand-worries-flare-20190522-00719

https://www.dailyfx.com/crude-oil

even with all the lying SA does about how much it cut production-cut MUCH moar than it announced-see cap#2-they still have a HUGE build in inventory.

Notable: Rockefeller Foundation, Mastercard Team Up On Opportunity Zones

Rockefeller Foundation, Mastercard Team Up On Opportunity Zones

Trump signed the Opportunity Zone legislation (Tax Cuts and Jobs Act) in December 2017 and then created the House Opportunity and Revitalization Council by Executive Order in December 2018. With over 8,700 Opportunity Zones identified by state Governors, the money tornado is accelerating. ⁃ TN Editor

The Rockefeller Foundation will spend $5.5 million to help cities take advantage of the opportunity zone program created in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The initiative will give six cities funding for a Chief Opportunity Zone Officer to be embedded in the city government, as well as community engagement specialists who can coordinate investments that will help the community.

Newark, NJ will be the first city in the initiative and will receive $920,000 in funding from the Rockefeller Foundation and Prudential Financial.

Separately, the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and Accelerator for America announced they will partner to help direct opportunity zone investment to distressed communities. The partnership includes an $850,000 grant from the Mastercard Impact Fund, as well as data science work, economic development tools and research.

The opportunity zone program allows investors to get a tax break if they put money into certain businesses and properties in “distressed” areas selected by the state and federal government. More than 8,700 census tracts have been designated as “opportunity zones,” and the Rockefeller Foundation estimates there is more than $6 trillion in unrealized capital gains that could qualify for investment there. However, there’s been concern that the benefits of the investments might only be felt by developers, or that investors might focus their money on gentrification or real estate projects rather than businesses that could foster the community.

https://www.technocracy.news/rockefeller-foundation-mastercard-team-up-on-opportunity-zones/

Notable: ARM (Major Mobile Phone Hardware Co.) Just Suspended Business with Huawei

ARM Just Suspended Business with Huawei

This might be the nail in the coffin for Huawei

May 22, 2019 12:48 GMT · By Silviu Stahie

https://news.softpedia.com/news/arm-just-suspended-business-with-huawei-526123.shtml

Notable: Trump cancels a scheduled meeting on infrastructure with Democrats

Trump busts up White House infrastructure meeting with Democrats, angered by probes

President Trump canceled a scheduled meeting on infrastructure with Democrats on Wednesday, saying he was upset about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggesting he was engaged in a cover-up during special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. "Instead of walking in happily into a meeting, I walk in to look at people that have just said that I was doing a cover-up. I don't do cover-ups," Trump said, speaking in the Rose Garden about 25 minutes after the scheduled start of the meeting with Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

On April 30, the three leaders agreed to jointly push for a $2 trillion infrastructure package, with the details to be determined later.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/trump-busts-up-white-house-infrastructure-talks-with-democrats-angered-by-russia-probe-attacks

Video of Pelosi accusing POTUS is also on this website.

Notable: >>6558182, >>6558188 May may resign tonight ?

BREAKING NEWS: U.K. PM Theresa May to resign tonight, following badly criticized handling of Brexit - reports

Notable: anon on Boom time baker

Boom time baker

"Attorney General Barr puts former intel bosses on notice"

Things seem to be moving quickly now. It has been a remarkable few weeks in American history. Momentum is building toward uncovering the distasteful possibility that the targeting of a U.S. presidential campaign was actually a political operation, fostered at the highest levels of government, masquerading as an FBI counterintelligence investigation.

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/444802-ag-barr-puts-former-intel-bosses-on-notice

Notable: FOLLOW THE WIVES Steele's leads directly to the CROWN

>>6558058

>>6558034

"Crown servant".

Notable: >>6558272 Pelosi has arrived at WH for meeting

https://twitter.com/betsy_klein/status/1131216453481451520

Notable: New DJT - Mr. McGahn can be forgiven for declining the honor of appearing in Nadler’s pseudo-impeachment drama

New DJT thread

11:11 timestamp

“He (Jerry Nadler) wants a show. He wants to use Mr. McGahn as a prop to spend three hours claiming that Mr. Trump tried to obstruct the Mueller investigation. YET MR. MUELLER WASN’T OBSTRUCTED IN ANY WAY, HIS COPIOUS REPORT WAS RELEASED FOR ALL TO SEE, & THERE WAS NO COLLUSION..

..BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN. Mr. McGahn can be forgiven for declining the honor of appearing in Mr. Nadler’s pseudo-impeachment drama.”

Wall Street Journal Editorial Board

Today - May 21, 2019

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1131215959107231745?s=21

Notable: New DJT - this is a Witch Hunt against the Republican Party and myself

DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1131217066982301707

Notable: New DJT - He (Jerry Nadler) wants a show. He wants to use Mr. McGahn as a prop,

New DJT

“He (Jerry Nadler) wants a show. He wants to use Mr. McGahn as a prop to spend three hours claiming that Mr. Trump tried to obstruct the Mueller investigation. YET MR. MUELLER WASN’T OBSTRUCTED IN ANY WAY, HIS COPIOUS REPORT WAS RELEASED FOR ALL TO SEE, & THERE WAS NO COLLUSION..

Notable: >>6558085, >>6558106, >>6558127 New terminology - “Crown Dossier”… from the Lynch Transcript

>>6558029

New terminology for me. “Crown Dossier”… from the Lynch Transcript… sorry forgot sauce

Notable: >>6558069 Drudge, Wall, and Border Patrol BS from DS outlets

MOAR FAKE NEWS

They are TRYING to claim that repairs, which means putting up NEW wall where old wall needed to be repaired or replaced, is NOT new wall.

They keep trying to claim this, but the FACT is that repairs ARE new wall, and that because POTUS used footage from 5 months ago (which is still current) that means he's lying:

The Army Corps of Engineers has overseen CBP wall replacement projects including some 124 miles of replacement barriers authorized since Trump took office. As of January, a New York Times analysis indicated that not a single mile of new border wall has been erected along the US-Mexico border wall.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-claim-about-border-wall-construction-used-5-month-old-footage-2019-2

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders insisted Wednesday on TV that the administration will have 500 miles of wall built by year's end and would be twice as far along if Democrats were helping instead of pushing back

Trump said Monday night during a rally in Pennsylvania that 'the wall is being built as we speak.'

'We'll have almost 500 miles of wall by the end of next year,' he boasted, inviting an audience member on stage who was wearing a suit made of brick wall-print fabric.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders upper the ante Wednesday morning, saying the administration will hit that landmark by the end of 2019 and that Letter cited 'an incorrect number.'

'I know that there have been – there's over 100 miles, I think it's close to 115 miles that have been finished,' she said on 'Fox & Friends.'

'We feel comfortable and confident that we're on track to get right around 500 finished by the end of the year,' Sanders insisted.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7058091/Trump-built-2-miles-new-wall-1-57-BILLION-Congress-handed-year.html

WE NEED TO USE CONGRESS' MONEY (that they begrudgingly gave POTUS for the wall) FOR REPAIRS, THEN USE THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY MONEY TO BUILD WALL WHERE THERE IS NOT ALREADY WALL (what they seem to only classify as "new" wall).

So this is FAKE NEWS that POTUS has only built "2 miles of new wall", we have AT LEAST about 130 miles of new wall, and POTUS think by the end of the year we could have 500 miles of NEW WALL, both repairs of old wall and wall where none existed.

For pics:

https://www.drudgereport.com/

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/federal-wall-funding-of-1-57-billion-yields-1-7-miles-of-fence-1.1262220

Notable: >>6557756 Steve Cohen Unmasked As Mystery Buyer Of $91 Million Bunny (pb notable)

>>6557756

Steve Cohen Unmasked As Mystery Buyer Of $91 Million Bunny

The mystery buyer who paid $91 million for Jeff Koons' now-infamous rabbit sculpture - a purchase that prompted WSJ to speculate about the art market entering a "frothy period" - has been unmasked: According to ArtNet, it's Steve Cohen.

Cohen's motives in buying the piece are unclear. Did Cohen feel like treating himself after making it through 2018 without attracting more legal scrutiny from the SEC? Or did he simply want to remind the world that, although the name on the door has changed, he's still the Steve Cohen.

n any case, the match makes sense: Though Cohen had previously denied making the purchase, he is one of the world's foremost collectors of art, and his personal collection has amassed dozens of invaluable works.

Robert Mnuchin, art dealer and father of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, placed the winning bid on behalf of his client (now believed to be Cohen). But he has refused to comment on reports of Cohen's identity, and had previously refused to discuss the identity of the buyer.

The 3-foot-tall stainless steel inflatable rabbit statue was part of a group of works consigned by the Newhouse family. Cohen's winning bid was part of $2 billion in sales made during Christie's postwar and contemporary art evening auction last week.

Though the disclosure of his identity was likely inevitable, it makes sense why Cohen might want to conceal his involvement in the sale. After a year where Point72 beat its benchmarks (and most other funds) but nevertheless failed to achieve the stunning double-digit returns for which Cohen's previous firm, SAC Capital, had once been known, investors probably want to see Cohen focused more on their portfolios than his art collection, especially as his fund seeks out another $1 billion in outside money.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-21/steve-cohen-unmasked-mystery-buyer-91-million-bunny

Notable: new Q hitpiece from MM. note the wrapup smear, note the stink of fink in the article because of it

https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/05/22/Fox—Friends-hosts-conspiracy-theorist-who-posts-on-a-bigoted-pro-Trump-subreddit/223768

new q hitpiece from MM

Notable: If C comes before D, did the Collins document release satisfy the "C" ?

John Solomon says declas is expected to start (gradual release of documents, as cleared, instead of massive one-time dump) in 0 to 8 days.

If C comes before D, did the Collins document release satisfy the "C" prediction?

Notable: tweet17 flight seems to have a plethora of callsigns

more info on tweet17 flight seems to have a plethora of callsigns

Notable: federal judge unsealed 5 search warrant apps that Mueller's office filed in 2017 re Michael Cohen

federal judge in DC has unsealed five search warrant applications that Mueller's office filed in 2017 while they were investigating Michael Cohen

The search warrant applications show that by the summer of 2017, Mueller's office was investigating whether Cohen was acting as an agent for a foreign entity without notifying US authorities, as well as whether he made false statements to financial institutions

https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1131197768670879744

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6022465/7-18-17-Cohen-Search-Warrant.pdf

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6022466/8-1-17-Cohen-Search-Warrant.pdf

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6022467/8-7-17-Cohen-Search-Warrant.pdf

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6022469/11-14-17-Cohen-Search-Warrant.pdf

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6022468/11-14-17-Cohen-Search-Warrant-II.pdf

Notable: New DJT - Democrats are in danger of becoming irrelevant

==New DJT=

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1131196627644047360

Notable: New DJT - No Collusion and No Obstruction (of a crime caused by others)

NEW DJT

Everybody, including me, thought that when the 40 Million Dollar Mueller Report was released with No Collusion and No Obstruction (of a crime caused by others), that was the end. But no, the Democrats want to keep it going in an effort to help them in 2020. Bad for the Country!

Notable: >>6557484, >>6557528 Planefag and Tweet17, seems @jack is trying to shadowban the sky

Is Q about to drop

Odd callsign TWEET17

Notable: Doug Collins Tweets on the House Intel warfare.

New @RepDougCollins Tweet…

https://twitter.com/RepDougCollins/status/1131178375278661632

Notable: MSM: "Junk news" (populist) not coming from Russian sources.

https://apnews.com/5e81a57aa17d4ca7a0c02f89c8efe421?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=APBusiness

But it could also be a matter of not looking in the right place. Oxford University researchers studying tweets related to the EU elections found that only a small fraction came from Russian or “junk news” sources while mainstream news stories dominated.

However, some junk news stories can be several times more popular than those from professional media organizations, with the most successful centered on populist themes such as anti-immigration and Islamophobia while few attacked European leaders and parties or voiced skepticism about the EU, according to the researchers, who compiled about 585,000 tweets in seven European languages.

“Almost none of the junk we found circulating online came from known Russian sources,” said Nahema Marchal, a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute. “Instead, it is homegrown, hyper-partisan and alternative media that dominate.”

It’s also become harder to keep track of disinformation as more online conversations go private, said Clara Jiménez Cruz, co-founder of Spanish fact-checking group Maldita.es.

Twitter posts or public Facebook feeds are only part of the story, with many messages and discussions now moving to private Facebook groups or encrypted WhatsApp and Telegram chats, which EU and national governments can’t easily monitor, she said.

Avaaz said in a report that millions of potential Spanish voters were flooded with false, misleading, racist or hateful posts on WhatsApp ahead of national elections last month.

On WhatsApp, where it’s so hard for outsiders to peer into private conversations to debunk lies, “that is where we find most of the hoaxes,” said Jiménez. “And especially where we find them first.”

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Cook reported from Brussels and Parra reported from Madrid. Angela Charlton in Paris contributed to this report.

eu goog fb twat all colluding but muh russia

Notable: Dems side with Iran.

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/dem-leaders-side-with-iran-as-trump-admin-seeks-to-counter-terror-regime/

Dem Leaders Side With Iran as Trump Admin Seeks to Counter Terror Regime

Leading Democrats claim Trump 'itching for a confrontation with Iran'

Democratic congressional leaders held a press conference on Tuesday in which they sided with Iran in an increasingly tense standoff that has pitted the hardline Islamic regime against the Trump administration as it seeks to thwart Tehran's regional terror operations.

Sen. Richard Durbin (D., Ill.) and other top Democrats lashed out at the Trump administration over its efforts to isolate the Iranian regime, claiming in talking points that mirror those from Iranian leadership that President Donald Trump and his national security team are "itching for a confrontation with Iran."

IF PEOPLE WOULD ONLY LEARN THE TRUTH VERY SOON…Q…….

Notable: USMC Tweet: "It's in their blood"

Good morning

Nothing to see here @ :23 (or :17 muh fire engine flag)

https://twitter.com/USMC/status/1131167825345884163

Notable: Marketfag report.

Morning Market Report

Futures were lower on Wednesday as investors sought safety in bonds.

'''(see cap#4)

The Japanese yen and Swiss franc in muted trade amid renewed worries over the U.S.-China spat after reports Washington is considering cutting off the flow of American technology to as many as five Chinese companies including Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology, the world's largest supplier of video surveillance products, expanding the US crackdown on China beyond Huawei to include world leaders in video surveillance.

The dollar and 10Y yield were unchanged ahead of today's FOMC Minutes.

(Just going to tell us that they don't know and yeaaa they don't know)

Despite the return of trade fears, Europe's Stoxx 600 reversed earlier losses as technology and personal-goods shares advanced, after earlier declining with Chinese equities amid fears of a new front in the trade war. Qualcomm tumbled after a the company lost a landmark anti-trust case, wiping out half of the company's post-AAPL settlement gains.

Asian stocks edged modestly higher, led by utility and technology firms, after falling on Tuesday. Markets in the region were mixed, with India climbing and Japan slipping, its Topix gauge down 0.3%, driven by Takeda and Keyence. China's Shanghai Composite also retreated 0.5%, with Kweichow Moutai and PetroChina among the biggest drags.

Stock and bond markets have been fluctuating as investors try to size up how much damage the trade war will bring to global economic growth and supply chains, while the Trump administration considers adding video equipment to its growing blacklist of sales to China. With traders in wait-and-see mode, the VIX has been retreating and on Tuesday touched its lowest level in almost three weeks.

The VIX is an overcrowded trade with the system unable to pay out on it should it spike and stay there.

See here

What Does the Volatility Index (VIX) Indicate?

https://www.investopedia.com/news/what-does-volatility-index-vix-indicate/

continued

Meanwhile, the Turkish lira languished at the other end of the spectrum, posting the biggest drop among a handful of decliners, as tension between the U.S. and Turkey showed no sign of abating. The currency is also is paying the price for its pre-election efforts to tinker with the markets.

JP Morgan being investigated for manipulation here.

Market Snapshot

S&P 500 futures down 0.35% to 2,855.00

STOXX Europe 600 down 0.03% to 379.40

MXAP up 0.1% to 154.00

MXAPJ up 0.2% to 505.31

Nikkei up 0.05% to 21,283.37

Topix down 0.3% to 1,546.21

Hang Seng Index up 0.2% to 27,705.94

Shanghai Composite down 0.5% to

2,891.71

US Event Calendar

10am: Fed’s Williams Hosts Economic

Press Briefing

10:10am: Fed’s Bostic Makes Opening

Remarks at Dallas Fed Conference

2pm: FOMC Meeting Minutes

In the US it’s quiet until we get to the FOMC meeting minutes.

Oil trade suggests that the cash open may be down about -90 on DOW.

https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/stocks/futures

https://www.dailyfx.com/crude-oil

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/bond/tmubmusd30y?countrycode=bx

baker from last night-please familiarize yourself with SEC laws regarding stock sales. The amounts that are being sold are well above "normal sales"-your words.

A description was provided to you as well as an summary of how it really works.

Notable: Libya's Hifter meets French leader Macron amid fighting.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/libyas-hifter-meets-french-leader-macron-amid-fighting-63195650

Libya's Hifter meets French leader Macron amid fighting

Libyan commander Khalifa Hifter was in Paris Wednesday for meetings with French President Emmanuel Macron amid growing international concern about his weeks-long offensive to take Libya's capital, Tripoli.

The closed-door meeting comes two weeks after Macron hosted Libya's struggling U.N.-backed prime minister, who has denounced Hifter's offensive as an attempted coup.

Macron's office has expressed support for Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj but hasn't openly addressed claims that France is secretly backing Hifter.

The fighting over Tripoli erupted on April 4, with the self-styled Libyan National Army led by Hifter and aligned with a rival government in eastern Libya, launching a push on the country's capital, located in the west, and militias loosely allied with the U.N.-supported government in Tripoli.

The death toll from the fighting stood at 510 on Sunday, according to the World Health Organization, mainly combatants but also including civilians. Tens of thousands have been displaced or trapped by Hifter's offensive.

The U.N. envoy for Libya warned on Tuesday that the oil-rich nation was "on the verge of descending into a civil war" that could imperil its neighbors. Ghassan Salame told the Security Council that extremists from the Islamic State group and al-Qaida are already exploiting the security vacuum.

Libya has been split between rival authorities in east and west since 2014, with each side backed by various militias. Hifter's forces have battled Islamic extremists and other rival factions across eastern Libya, and recently made inroads in the south.

Hifter presents himself as a strong hand that can restore stability after years of chaos that transformed Libya into a haven for armed groups and a major conduit for migrants bound for Europe. His opponents, however, view him as an aspiring autocrat and fear the country could return to one-man rule as under longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi, who was ousted and killed in 2011.

Notable: UK 2nd largest steel company collapses into bankruptcy.

UK 2nd Largest Steel Company Collapses Into Bankruptcy - via ZH

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-22/second-largest-british-steelmaker-collapses-bankruptcy-iron-prices-climb

Notable: DJT Tweet: Wall construction.

Moar DJT

Much of the Wall being built at the Southern Border is a complete demolition and rebuilding of old and worthless barriers with a brand new Wall and footings. Problem is, the Haters say that is not a new Wall, but rather a renovation. Wrong, and we must build where most needed….

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@realDonaldTrump

Also, tremendous work is being done on pure renovation - fixing existing Walls that are in bad condition and ineffective, and bringing them to a very high standard!

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1131158414279827457?s=21

Notable: DJT Tweet: "Without the ILLEGAL Witch Hunt, my poll numbers…"

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1131152788770181121

Without the ILLEGAL Witch Hunt, my poll numbers, especially because of our historically “great” economy, would be at 65%. Too bad! The greatest Hoax in American History.

Notable: >>6556999, >>6557018, >>6557066 Gerry Saenz DIGG: Saenz is married to Norma Saenz (works in Grass Valley with disturbed children, kek)

Reposting from yesterday. Grass Valley pipe bomb comey graphic tingled the almonds

NORMA SAENZ works in GRASS VALLEY

with emotionally disturbed children

She might be related to Gerry Damien Saenz who was arrested in LA GUN RAID

I thought Grass Valley sounded familiar.

Anons remember the LA gun raid? When I was digging on the guy that got arrested Gerry Damien Saenz, it led to a Norma Nicholls. The two were engaged according to an old news paper article that just so happened to be the story immediately after a story about Rapin Bill, some Navy Seals and a famous mansion where Gerry Saenz was working in San Diego. Little digging on Norma Nicholls and it turns out there's a Norma Saenz who works at Charis Youth Center in Grass Valley

Norma Saenz and Norma Nicholls isn't a 100% match, but I think they are the same person. Norma works at Charis Youth Center also in Grass Valley. Dig on Charis Youth Center and there is a Charis Ranch in Laporte Colo which isn't that far from Highlands Ranch Colorado.

PB Notable

>>6551683 , >>6551562, >>6551747 Anon graphic on Grass Valley FF timeline

All PB links to orig Gerry Saenz dig

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Notable: POTUS has tweeted about Libya for years.

DJT twatted Libya! Libya! Libya! for YEARS!

POTUS loves America/Americans SO much.

NEVER forgive them! NEVER give up!

Fight! Fight Fight!

https://qresear.ch/?q=Libya

Notable: >>6556907 New DJT Tweets: Witch hunt.

NEW TRUMP TWEETS, BOSS IS UP EARLY

Donald J. Trump

‏

Verified account

@realDonaldTrump

After two years of an expensive and comprehensive Witch Hunt, the Democrats don’t like the result and they want a DO OVER. In other words, the Witch Hunt continues!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1131137371305644033

Donald J. Trump

‏

Verified account

@realDonaldTrump

Following Following @realDonaldTrump

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Everything the Democrats are asking me for is based on an illegally started investigation that failed for them, especially when the Mueller Report came back with a NO COLLUSION finding. Now they say Impeach President Trump, even though he did nothin wrong, while they “fish!”

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1131136429545934850

Notable: New DJT with missing 'g'.

New DJT with missing 'g'

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1131136429545934850

Notable: Netherlands Probing If Huawei Is Using ‘Secret Back Doors’ to Customer Data

Netherlands Probing If Huawei Is Using ‘Secret Back Doors’ to Customer Data and Spying for Beijing, Report Says

BRUSSELS—The Netherlands’ national intelligence agency has begun an investigation into whether Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei is using “secret back doors” to access customer data, according to security sources. Operatives at the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD), based in The Hague, are looking into whether the firm has enabled spying on a mass scale by the Chinese regime, the Dutch newspaper Volkskrant reported. In April, the intelligence agency warned it would be “undesirable for the Netherlands to depend on the hardware or software of companies from countries running active cyber programs against Dutch interests.”

They also recommended limiting the use of Huawei in the country’s 5G network and phasing the company—which works with three of the country’s biggest networks—out of much of the existing infrastructure for older 2G, 3G, and 4G mobile internet networks. A spokesman for the AIVD declined to comment on the newspaper report, saying: “We don’t say if it’s right or if it’s wrong. We never respond to questions about possible ongoing investigations because that can complicate our work.”

Bart Jacobs, a professor of computer security at Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands, said the news that an investigation had been launched “sounds like a smoking gun, with possible geopolitical consequences,” according to Volkskrant. The report came as three key EU leaders, including the Netherlands’ Prime Minister Mark Rutte, jointly said they would not follow the decision of the United States to shut the Chinese firm out of the European market completely.

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and France’s President Emmanuel Macron also joined the pushback against the United States, saying that if Huawei passes the relevant security checks, it will be allowed to provide some 5G infrastructure. The United States wants to see a total ban on Huawei equipment in 5G networks of allies, hinting that if allies allow Huawei into their 5G networks, there could be less intelligence sharing with them. While visiting the UK recently, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the United States “has an obligation to ensure the places where we operate, places where U.S. information is, places where we have national security risks, that they operate within trusted networks and that is what we will do.” Recent leaked reports indicate that the UK will allow Huawei to provide equipment for non-core elements of its 5G network.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/netherlands-probing-if-huawei-is-using-secret-back-door-to-customer-data-and-spying-for-beijing-report-says_2930792.html